I'm getting emails from my own email address to my email address. Has someone hacked my emails?

I'm receiving emails as if I had sent them. They say either [email protected] or [email protected]
How do I stop this? I am obviously not sending emails to myself.

I doubt that anything has been hacked. In all probability, a spammer has obtained your email address and is using it as a bogus From: address and somewhat stupidly may also be using it as a To: address.
Viewing the source of the received message (using ctrl+u) can reveal something about the message's true provenance. Whilst it is not going to tell you who sent it (and the actual sender may be some innocent user whose machine <em>has</em> been compromised), it can be reassuring to find that the message came from some entirely foreign location, and not any account or machine that you are responsible for.

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Started to receive emails, addressed to and from myself?
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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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Hi as per above, for the last week I have been receiving spam emails from my own email address. Can anyone help me please to put a stop to this and also perhaps explain how it happened? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

'''but not sure what you mean when you say I must not store it on my computer?'''
I was just thinking that if someone or some software agent is accessing your computer then they also have access to saved passwords if for instance it is webmail and the password is stored on Firefox, or if you store logins and passwords in any other utility.
'''I have asked my service provider again for help - waiting to hear from them. I don't store passwords in any other utility that I know of? Are passwords stored automatically somewhere on computers?'''
An obvious thing to do is also make sure you log out of email and do not leave yourself logged in or use the remember me option.
'''Yes, thank you, I always log out and never use the remember me option'''
'''Thank you for your input. I did report this to my service provider and they assured me that no one is accessing my account?
I wonder what they meant by that
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'''I have asked them to verify the above - thank you. :)'''
What are the emails ? do they make sense, are they also sent to others ? and of course is it likely anyone else is using your computer and sending these emails.
'''The emails make some sort of sense but not much. As far as I know I am the only one receiving them but just to be safe I deleted my Address Book. No one else has access to my computer - I am the only one who uses it. :(('''
it is probably worth contacting them again, give a couple of examples of the emails you are referring to and tell them that you yourself did not type those emails. Ask if they can explain how this may have happened.
'''Done and awaiting their response. :) Thank you'''
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'''what is a limited user account? Also, I am now busy adding a password to my computer and making all files private through User Accounts. Would that help do you think?'''
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/usercpl_create_password.mspx
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When you turn off your primary account the only active account the phone can send via is your Gmail account, and that's what you're seeing.
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