I am getting emails from myself. What is happening? What can I do?

I am getting the same thing in my Yahoo email account. It simply means that a hacker got to either your list of contacts or any of your friends' list and is using the email addresses to send out spam.
Change your password; however, since the cat is out of the bag so to speak, not much you can do. I've eliminated most of my contacts in my Yahoo account in case it's "raided" again; if this is your main email address, I'd probably send an email to your friends warning them that they might be getting spam and it's really not from you. You can also delete that account and start another, but it may be hacked again...

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Getting emails from myself

Started to receive emails, addressed to and from myself?
Junk content and no unsubscribe option.
Have I been hacked? And what should I do please.
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Tony.

When people receive emails which appear to come from their own address but they haven't sent they naturally tend to be concerned: however it's most unlikely that anyone has hacked their account, they've just been targeted by one of two common spammers' techniques: both arise because it's all too easy to forge the 'from' address on messages to be something other than the real one.
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There isn't really anything you can do about it: closing the account isn't really worth the hassle unless you are totally swamped, because you will have to tell everyone your new address. Apple can't really do any more than they already are about spam.

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Hi everybody, I already apologize if this isn't the right community for my problem.This whole thing is very confusing so I really hope someone can help me
I used Gmail as my official email account and it was also the Email address for my Apple-ID (for many, many years..)
Strangely, a few months ago, I got an Email from Apple saying that my Apple-ID was being used for Imessage and Facetime on other devices (in Turkey?). I googled it and found out that it might be a fishing mail so I quickly changed my password and also the Email-adress for my Apple.ID – which means that the Gmail-account was not longer in use for Apple anymore.
But here's the problem : I still get Emails from Apple (in Turkish) from time to time to my Gmail- account. They don't seem to be fishing Emails, though. Another odd thing about that is, that the mails I receive at Gmail don't seem to be addressed to my CORRECT email-address.
While my adress looks like „[email protected]“ the Itunes mails I receive are addressed to '[email protected]“ . I hope you know what I mean. There is no point between the names in my real address.
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Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4933
Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2075
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Good Evening,
I should say if u could try to keep this simple as I am by no means a computer wiz!. Having said that I have a Verizon account & friend's of mine have AOL but for some reason we can not send email to each other as it keeps coming back.
My question is why is this? I love Verizon but have never had this with any of the other providers I had. Is there something I need to turn off? & if so what & how?. I'm really lost as to why I can't send nor get email from AOL. If anyone could explain it but in a way I can understand it this would be great!.
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my70chevelless wrote:
Good Evening,
I should say if u could try to keep this simple as I am by no means a computer wiz!. Having said that I have a Verizon account & friend's of mine have AOL but for some reason we can not send email to each other as it keeps coming back.
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I am regularly getting emails from BT advising me how to fix my account to resolve error 553's. I have done this, following the guideance but I am still receiving emails. I am not getting any Send/Receive errors or error 553s.
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Hi,
I am regularly getting emails from BT advising me how to fix my account to resolve error 553's. I have done this, following the guideance but I am still receiving emails. I am not getting any Send/Receive errors or error 553s.
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