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Thread #101178   Message #2037973
Posted By: freightdawg
28-Apr-07 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: Tech: email address co-opted
Subject: Tech: email address co-opted
Okay, I'm a 'puter doofus, so this has me totally stumped. The Mrs. Freightdawg received an email as a "re:" in the subject line. She didn't recognize the sender, so she rolled the cursor over the sender's name and the sender's email address showed up - and it was the sender's name followed my the Mrs. Freightdawg's email address. My question is this: how can someone "co-opt" (read "steal") your email address? And to what nefarious end? How can you protect your email address from getting stolen by someone? I've heard of web sites getting hacked, but stolen email addresses?

Any answers and suggestions would be appreciated.

Freightdawg