For those on AOL whose e-mail accounts have been "spoofed," there is an AOL address you can forward them to. I can't remember what it is right now -- you'll have to look around at the AOL Help area. But I received some spam e-mail addressed to me from my own AOL account that I did not send, and after I forwarded it to them, it stopped.
Barbara H. http://barbarah.wordpress.com On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Deborah Nord Capen <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > You need to understand that the email address in the “from” line is NOT the > actual sender of the email! Their computer has been hacked, or you can > say that their address book has been hijacked by a “spoofer” who then sends > out mass emails to everybody in their address book with these links. If > you click on “reply”, the email that you send will NOT go to the person who > you believe to be the sender, but it will just go out to an empty (not > legitimate) email address. > > > > The safest thing to do is to delete the email without clicking on the link. > If you know the person and you know it is not their character to send an > email with just an unfamiliar link without an explanation, you need to > “assume” that this person did NOT actually send the email to you. > > > > These people (celrods, ladynotes and whoever the other one was) are only > victims, they did NOT send these emails to you. > > Hope this helps. > > Take care, > > Debbie > > > >
