How someone can send spam mails with my email ID?

I saw my email ID is used to spam. But the mails are not sent from my email. Only the ID is same. How is it possible?

How someone can send spam mails with my email ID?
It's called "Spoofing."





Email spoofing is the act of forging the header information on an email so that it appears to have originated from somewhere other than its true source. The protocol used for email, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), does not have any authentication to verify the source. By changing the header information someone can make the email appear to come from whoever they choose.





Email spoofing is used by virus authors. By propagating a virus with a spoofed email source it is more difficult for users who receive the virus to track its source to stop the virus. Email spoofing is also used by distributors of spam to hide their identity.





Oh, and still to this day it's pretty easy to do!
Reply:Its possible cuz all it takes is a Spam Bot program to do it, using any annonomous name/email addy.
Reply:you have a hacker. change your password every.2. days and they will get tired of doing this i have haad this done to me on different occations myself. ?
Reply:It is possible to do this. I'm not sure how much you will understand but anyway I will say how it can be done.





1) You can use a pop server of some internet service provider who doesn't need authentication to send mail.





2) You can setup your own mail server in your computer and send mail programatically. This is very simple if you know a little bit of programming
Reply:Virus. They Can Do That.

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