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How do I forward mail using address book?

How can someone get my e-mail address book and send a scam to all my contacts using my name?

  • Someone hacked my e-mail and sent a letter to ALL my contacts claiming I was in Nigeria and needed them to wire me money via Western Union. Obviously it was a scam but how can this be prevented???

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    Unfortunately it can't, but I was told to change my password often, so they can't get access into your account. Use a "throw away" email address to receive your junk mail. I use one for all my junk email, newsletters, sites that i have to sign up for, etc, then one for m y personal use, and one for my business. It helps keeps the garbage and spam emails in one place and my stuff cleaned up. Yes, I have to check 3 different email addresses but I only check the junk one about once a week.

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One of the things that cause this is the fact that when users forward Email without deleting all of the previous addresses and they do not hide the ones they are sending to in the BCC section. The hacker can access all of the addresses displayed, including yours. This is a practice everyone should use to prevent spam, phishing and hacking.

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