Spam Being Sent from My E-mail Address! Help!

[TheGarreth]

I'm getting spam sent out from my e-mail address. I've changed passwords, security questions, browser sign-in security, ensured that no other e-mail addresses have been added for said notifications (password change, etc.) and have cleared my computer of any potential viruses (I dl'd BitDefender from the App Store and it said I had a trojan virus on my laptop; it has since been deleted). And the e-mails are still coming. Any suggestions/ideas? I'm at a total loss here.

 

[Intell]

Your email address could be spoofed into the messages to make it appear to be coming from your account. Not hard to do.

 

[TheGarreth]

Your email address could be spoofed into the messages to make it appear to be coming from your account. Not hard to do.

Thanks - that's not something I'm to familiar/knowledgable with but it did occur to me; especially since the cc/distribution lists on the e-mails aren't going out to anyone on my contact lists/address book. Any suggestions on how to stop this - if possible?

 

[Intell]

Contact your email service provider, ie Yahoo/Google/Microsoft/Comcast/Verizon and see what they can do to help stop it.

 

[TheGarreth]

Contact your email service provider, ie Yahoo/Google/Microsoft/Comcast/Verizon and see what they can do to help stop it.

Thanks! Just a follow-up on the spoofing suggestion - in my Mac Mail, it shows the e-mails as both being sent and being received by 4 other e-mail address other than my own and rather than show my e-mail, it shows my name (as my Mac is recognizing that e-mail address as mine)....but I logged into Yahoo mail through my browser and it only shows the e-mail as being from one person and being sent to myself and 4 other addresses. Would this suggest that it is in fact some sort of spoof???

 

[Intell]

The suspect email shows up in your sent box? This doesn't sound like a spoofed email.