Someone is using my email address to send spam!

One quick step to foil email hijackers

Spammers have a wide variety of tools to harvest email addresses from the web. One morning, you wake up, check your email only to find in your dismay that someone has just sent 1,000 junk emails using your email address!

What to do?

First, log into your email account on your web server or contact your hosting companies tech support department and tell them to change your email password immediately. Pick a good strong password using combinations of capital letters, numbers and letters.

This is a bad password: bobandnancy

This is a better password: Bob$A12ndNancy

Next, contact your web site developer. Have them encrypt all the forms on your web site that contain email addresses. If you don't know how to do this, or are not sure what this means, leave a comment to this post and we'll help you out

Lastly, don't panic. These two steps will help. If you continue to have issues, contact your web hosting company and if that doesn't work, consider changing hosting services to a more secure server