Have people told you that they received a strange email from your address?
I can check out all your security settings and emailing habits. Sometimes the cure is quite simple! You may not have malware nor have nor is it likely that your account or password has been compromised or hacked. I get those emails from people too and just delete them. (I get many of those a day). No one just emails a random link to 10 people. I know to delete it immediately (but, many of your friends trust mail from you, click on them, and then are mad at you).
It’s called email address spoofing. They make the email appear to come from you (which is easy to do for people in my realm) and it is then sent to people who know you (to gain trust) because your names were all skimmed from the same distribution list. (DON'T partipate or allow your friends to include you in their incessant political meme forwarding of the day!) It’s usually a spam link to Canadian pharmaceuticals, political rhetoric or dating/sex sites. Sometimes it can really be a virus trying to spread, but most often a spam motive. They can even gain the names from Social Networks if you don’t secure your profile correctly.
It is unlikely they have gotten your email password, but change it anyway to be sure.
It’s also good to have your main "everything" email, but also use your private quest/AT&T or Comcast, etc... email for business and banking. Don’t give that one to any mailing websites like Kohls, Target, retail stores or neighborhood bunco lists. Also, DON'T use work emails EVER... You don't own them and a career change can upset your digital world
I can set all this for you if it sounds tricky.
It’s called email address spoofing. They make the email appear to come from you (which is easy to do for people in my realm) and it is then sent to people who know you (to gain trust) because your names were all skimmed from the same distribution list. (DON'T partipate or allow your friends to include you in their incessant political meme forwarding of the day!) It’s usually a spam link to Canadian pharmaceuticals, political rhetoric or dating/sex sites. Sometimes it can really be a virus trying to spread, but most often a spam motive. They can even gain the names from Social Networks if you don’t secure your profile correctly.
It is unlikely they have gotten your email password, but change it anyway to be sure.
It’s also good to have your main "everything" email, but also use your private quest/AT&T or Comcast, etc... email for business and banking. Don’t give that one to any mailing websites like Kohls, Target, retail stores or neighborhood bunco lists. Also, DON'T use work emails EVER... You don't own them and a career change can upset your digital world
I can set all this for you if it sounds tricky.
You keep their password, insist on being a friend, set txt alerts to be sent to your phone for each post or comment they make, teach them about scams & sharing personal info and pictures, remind them that once something is on the internet it is PERMANENT & LIVES FOREVER (even to employers), set privacy to "friends only", turn off all "FBapps". Let me setup your teens account properly!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159672/Facebook-ask-900-million-users-phone-details-prevent-LinkedIn-style-hack.html YouTube
impossible screening, allow or block this site entirely! Even if the video content is acceptable, anonymous comments are crude, fowl and rarely filtered in time. I can set up a site filter for your home network.
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Your ISP Mail
Using your own internet service provider to give your family email accounts is the safest and most easily security controlled method.
Yahoo Mail
POP access costs extra and yhey targeted by scams and scams more frequently.
Google Email
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