Yes - I did not receive the message. It was sent to all in my address book as if from <joanaspenataol.com> and my address book then was erased, as were my mail files, history files etc. It was not sent from me and there's no record of it in my computer's McAfee security system. In a message dated 2/21/2010 10:18:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: Karen- Most of the time when you receive emails with AOL addresses including your own as the sender it doesn't mean your account has been hacked or your password compromised. It just means the spammer has spoofed your address. This is a common practice among spammers to use the TO address as the FROM address (from you and to you) as a means to get past spam filters at AOL or any other ISP. There is a term used for this--it's called a "Joe job" when spammers use this practice. It appears from Jack's email to the list that his experience was a bit different and that his account was actually hacked into. Joan In a message dated 2/21/2010 5:42:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, KesslerWV@aol.com writes: Apparently someone is going after AOL in a big way. For the past two month I have been getting emails from six or ten times weekly from different aol addresses advertising replica watches. I never really paid attention...just hit delete until one day I got one and it had MY husbands address on it as the sender. I immediately had him change his password. The emails continue to come ALL with aol addresses and I continued to hit delete NEVER clicking on the link it was trying to send me. Two weeks ago I got one from MY OWN email address. I changed my password (which seems to be aol's "fix all" in this type of situation). I don't think THEY (aol) know how this is happening. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AOLERS-ROOTSWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message