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Is your inbox suddenly getting flooded by spam and other emails? Learn how to identify and deal with spam bombing.
Spammers collect email addresses from chat rooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and viruses that harvest users' address books. These collected email addresses are sometimes also sold to other spammers.
Spoofing happens when someone sends emails making it look like it they were sent from your account. In reality, the emails are sent through a spoofer's non-AOL server. They show your address in the "From" field to trick people into opening them and potentially infecting their accounts and computers.
Know when your AOL Mail account has been hacked and how to fix it. Find out how you can tell if your account was compromised and what to do to secure it.
Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.
By searching the Web and other resources for email addresses corresponding to the names and street addresses in their records, direct marketers can send targeted spam email.