Spam emails sent from my address book

I am being told by people in my address book that they are receiving emails that look as if they're from me but I've never sent them. All of the emails encourage the recipient to click on a link. The emails also have a signature that it was sent from Verizon Mobile. How can I stop this?

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I recently re-installed windows on my 2 p.c's hoping this would resolve the issue, but after a couple of weeks the same thing has just happened.
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Have a look at these threads. It will save repeating everything.
https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Queries/Email-account-hacked-yet-again/td-p/1234813
https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Queries/Frequent-hacking/td-p/1198223

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Over the weekend it has come to my attention that my BT email address (@btinternet.com) has been sending out emails with links in to all my address book without my knowledge. These links are for a site selling viagra and other stuff. The emails seems to go out early in the morning.
I have also been receiving email in my spam folder from myself. Has anyone else experienced this and know how I can stop these emails sending as I have some pretty important people iin my address book and it would appear that I am spamming them.
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And turn off HTML in emails from unknown sources at the very least . Plain Text only.
Well.... Most infections actually come from friends so maybe it's wiser to just disable HTML full stop.(And NOT click on attachments unless you categorically know what that attachment is).
Is it possible to turn off HTML etc in Outlook ? It's been so long since I used it I can't remember... I'd have thought there would be a preference similar to Thunderbird. I use Evolution.....
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Recently 2 sets of spam emails were sent using my email address to people in my contact list. All reciepients were in my contact list, my mail sent box does not show these emails as outbound from my computer. The only other option is it was from my BlackBerry curve.
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It is very very unlikey that this happened because of some malware on your mac. There are no viruses on macs . It is most likely that someone hacked into your email provider. It hasn't happened to me, but I know of a lot of people that has happend to. You should probably contact your email provider to get more details. also, check on the links to the threads listed in the box on the right "More Like This". Some of them may be a little bit dated, but might give you some helpful information as well.
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Has anyone tried to do something similar, or is there another way around this?
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The Mail.app stores all message recipients in the list of Previous Recipients and the autofill feature pulls from the Address Book and the list of Previous Recipients.
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Hi,
If you have Lion on the computer then all the Contact Info is sent via iCloud to the iOS 5 device which presumably you do take with you.
The Address Book stores the info you have told it.
This tends to be Contacts that you have "Real Names" for in addition to something like an email or iChat Screen Name.
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I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. If you are coming from pre-Mountain Lion, then Address Book has changed to Contacts.
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