Sounds more like your email address is being faked.

It's relatively easy to send an email and fake the senders address. Most server now are configured to stop an email being sent if the sender's address is not in the same domain as the server - eg. the gmail server will only send emails from gmail users with a gmail address.

However, lots of viruses/trojans now commandeer a PC and turn them into little email servers and can send spam without this check.

So your address has either been guessed or picked up off of a webpage trawl - passed onto these commandeered PCs who are sending out emails pretending to be from you - and thousands of other addresses too.

Posted By: fleckmatic on January 21st 2010 at 09:56:25

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My hotmail account has been hacked into twice in last few months (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 21, 00:06:57
- Have you ever put your hotmail details into a website other than hotmail? (General Chat) - Ben, Jan 21, 10:11:49
- Sounds more like your email address is being faked. (General Chat) - fleckmatic, Jan 21, 09:56:25
- hotmail is shit (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 21, 09:54:41
- Obviously run anti-virus and anti-malware programs (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 21, 09:24:39
  - i hated NoScript on FireFox, uninstalled it after 4 days (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 21, 09:52:07
    - I know, you said yesterday... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 21, 10:29:43
      - it stopped things working (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 21, 10:56:01
        
        Malicious scripts seem to be on the rise over the last couple of years (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 21, 11:20:31
- change your password from charles 21 (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 21, 09:10:31
- Sympathies... (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Jan 21, 08:41:48
- run adaware, and crap cleaner then change your passwords (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jan 21, 08:41:18
- try something like this (General Chat) - rincon, Jan 21, 08:23:15
- gmail is the best (n/m) (General Chat) - grants_cold_finger, Jan 21, 02:02:05
  - Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Jan 21, 08:43:32
- Get emails on regular basis (General Chat) - Old Splat, Jan 21, 00:54:48
  - no, i've never ever touched spam (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 21, 01:00:39

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