No, Your Email Wasn’t Hacked—Here’s Why Spammers Fake Your Address

✏️ Email spoofing is rampant. Spammers often send email that looks like it came from you, and there's little that you can do about it.

✏️ Someone's sending from my email address
So called “From: spoofing” is rampant. Spammers fake emails to look like they came “From:” email addresses that had nothing to do with it. If that happens to be your email address, there’s nothing you can do.

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Chapters
0:00 Sending from My Email Address
0:35 Forging the “From:” line
1:25 It happens to me
2:50 Blocking an email sender does not work
3:50 Signs of a hack

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