My Email address is being used

People are receiving emails with my name and email address and they are not from me which is disturbing
given the content. What can I do about this?

Castlefin wrote:
People are receiving emails with my name and email address and they are not from me which is disturbing
given the content. What can I do about this?
Hi. Welcome to the forums.
Are the people receiving these emails known contacts ?, or are you receiving bounced "non delivery" type messages ?
As already advised, for the former, you need to alter your password in case your account is compromised. I.e. login to webmail to alter the password, and check all the options in case any forwarding or vacation response messages are set.
For the latter, there is frankly nothing that can be done about it. Again as already mentioned, spammers will tend to use other email addresses as the "From" address in their spam runs, so the responses will dry up to a trickel and eventually stop. The spammers don't choose the address, it is done by their software and can be anything, and anyone's address.
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HT5538 I received a notification on my iPhone that MY email address was being used on someone else's iPhone for iMessage.

I have 3 devices that use my email address for iMessage. I got a message today on my phone that says "Keith's iPhone is now using my email for iMessage" I'm not Keith. I know someone named Keith, but why would he be using my email. How is this possible? Have I been hacked?

Change your password. Now.

My Email address is being used by someone else

Hi
I recently set up a sub account in my married name (my primary email was in my maiden name) which was verified and i have been using this for about two weeks now. This week i have started getting friend requests from Bebo for someone else with the same name who is using my email address as theirs.
Is it possible that BT have duplicated the same email address so that both of us have the same email? if so wouldn't i have received a lot more emails from random people.
i'm concerned that i might have "stolen" someones unverified email address but even so the only emails i have received are ones that i know about.
HELP.
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laurajconnolly wrote:
Hi
I recently set up a sub account in my married name (my primary email was in my maiden name) which was verified and i have been using this for about two weeks now. This week i have started getting friend requests from Bebo for someone else with the same name who is using my email address as theirs.
Is it possible that BT have duplicated the same email address so that both of us have the same email? if so wouldn't i have received a lot more emails from random people.
i'm concerned that i might have "stolen" someones unverified email address but even so the only emails i have received are ones that i know about.
HELP.
Hi.
It isn't possible to have duplicate email addresses.
To be honest, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "verified" - there is nothing to verify. As soon as you add the account via the portal login, then it is yours.
Don't forget, as you mentoned people have the same names, and your email address may be without "periods", yet another of the same name may have an email address *with* a period between the firstname and surname (or of course visa versa).
There is frankly not a lot you can do abour it, apart from either ignore the requests or complain to Bebo in case they can track the user who may be giving wrong details.
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My email address is being used to send emails everyday by someone else? Can I fix this?

I'm getting about 30 messages a day with this subject "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" and no recognizable email addresses in the list included.
Can I fix this without changing my email account?
If not, are there steps outlined for transferring from this account to a new one?
Thanks.

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

My current apple ID is not an email address so cannot use iCloud as it needs one! I do have another email address. what do I do ?

Hi My current apple id is not an email address I have used all over my iPad but when I tried to activate iCloud it demanded an email address. I do have two and so far neither has worked. Any ideas pleae?

this is where I changed my appleID from being a name into being my email
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My iMessage recently stopped working. When I attempt to log back in it tells me "your apple ID (email address) cannot be used to set up imessage at this time" then gives me a code to share with Apple support. (See screen shot). Any suggestions?

There is no official public documentation of that error message as far as I know, but according to reports, it can mean (at least sometimes) that the same Apple ID is being used with the iTunes Store or one of the other Apple content stores, and the payment method is invalid. Sign in to the store and review your account. You do not, of course, have to provide any billing information to set up an account to use only with iMessage, as it's a free service.
Otherwise, do what the error message tells you to do.

HT201407 hi..I cant activate my Iphone 5. I bought this from someone who cant remember her apple password and even the email address that she used to set up the account.What am I gonna do now....How can I activate my Iphone. what are my options...pls help

hi..I cant activate my Iphone 5. I bought this from someone who cant remember her apple password and even the email address that she used to set up the account.What am I gonna do now....How can I activate my Iphone. what are my options...pls help me.thank you

Activation Lock in iOS 7 > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
hannibalfromlemery wrote:
.I cant activate my Iphone 5. I bought this from someone
The Apple ID and Password that was Originally used to Activate the iDevice is required.
If you cannot get this information from the seller
Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
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I have added a new email address but kept my Id, but I get busy when trying from iPhone to iPad as they are clashing. Like find my iPhone app hence trying to keep them all on one account

IOS: using facetime http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4319
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settings - app/iTunes store - sign out and sign back in with your new id.
Note - if your older apps needs an update it will use your old apple id and password, as Apps are tied to the apple id that was used to purchase it.
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How can I get rid of email address not in use

I have an email address which I used to set up my Apple ID. That address is now disabled so I have gone to my details and updated them to the new address. But I can't sign in to iCloud or update my apps as it keeps telling me to sign in using the now disabled email address. In iTunes I can change it to my new address, but not apps or iCloud. When I go to reset the password I am asked to change the password in my new address but that's not what I want to do. I've tried all the different passwords I can think of when using the old address but none work. Also I selected personal details rather than email as it would never get through, obviously, and so put in my birthday. But they say my birthday date is not in their records! What? So I go to my details and there it is, in black and white, exactly what I was typing in! This is driving me insane. Is there any way I can delete my original, without having to put in the password for that ID? I really hope someone can help me. I did see a section somewhere which said did I want to delete an old email address but again, I had to put in the password for that email address and I DON'T HAVE IT!
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After you sign in with the old ID and are presented with the option to keep the information on the iPad, you should say yes to that. Then you should be able to delete the account on the device. After you delete the account, you can - or you should be able to - sign in with the new Apple ID.
I tried these very same steps on my Pod Touch and it worked exactly the way that I'm describing. When you sign in again with the new ID, you will be given the option to merge Reminders, Bookmarks, Etc, with those in iCloud.com. I selected the option to merge all of the information. Nothing was duplicated and everything was exactly as it was before I deleted the iCloud account.
So ... sign into your new ID in Settings>iTunes & App Store. Tap the old ID and sign out. Then sign in with the new ID. Then delete the old iCloud account like I explained above and then sign in with the new Apple ID, all of your purchased content and iCloud content should be good to go.

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for my old email address account( @qq.com)
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but there is no any notice or email to me firefox will have new sync system, if there, I could backup before bookmarks from 28 vision ( or some june's vision), but this big browser group is quiet, now, I can't log in again old account,
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2nd, Password Reset, " An email has been sent to the requested account with further information. If you do not receive an email then please confirm you have entered the same email address used during account registration.", I couldn't receive any mail(or in spam) :(
3rd, How to update to the new Firefox Sync ...
"You can use the same email address that you used to set up the old Sync." , before bookmarks can return, if I registered success?
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Hi, How can I delete my icloud account on my iphone? I don't have that email address I was using before anymore and I already tried deleting the account but it is asking for the password and I don't remember it.

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You need to go to Manage your Apple ID, https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/, and sign in with your current Apple ID and password and do the following:
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Cheers,
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I have reset my iPhone 5 and now it is asking me to activate my phone with my apple ID but when i put in my details in its say the my email address cannot be used to unlock my iPhone? help!

I have reset my iPhone 5 and now it is asking me to activate my phone with my apple ID but when i put in my details in its say the my email address cannot be used to unlock my iPhone? help!

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Email address cannot be used for iMessage

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I set up the icloud email address for her with no problem and am able to e-mail her with it and she is able to send emails back to me with it.
Went into Settings>Messages>Add Another Email. I typed in the icloud email address I set up for her and received the following error message:
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I also went into the Messages app on my phone and sent a iMessage to the iCloud e-mail account and received a response that the message was delivered and Read!
If anyone has dealt with this issue before, please let me know what you think. Thank you!
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So if I'm reading this right, you cannot assign multiple Apple IDs to iMessage on the same device? You have to log out of the first in order to use the second?
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Or, is there a way to allow multiple apple IDs to iMessage and FaceTime on a sinle device WITHOUT having to disable one?
Thanks for the previous fast response and the future help.
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