Can anyone advise me what to do as my friends are getting a bit pee'd off when they get emails that are advertising things. Someone is using my email address.
I hide my email on facebook and on other sites
This has started happening to me too. Would be interested in how to stop it.
Hi I just looked at where the emails were sent and most of them were to Allotments for all (no reply)
If they appear to come from you, one of your friends most likely has a virus or you do.
Spam is impossible to stop once it gets started.
Use a throwaway email (hotmail or yahoo etc) for signing up to things and a separate one for close friends and family.
They most likely got your email address by somebody passing on one of those silly attachments that people tend to send to everybody in their address book. The email will eventually get to some spammer and sold on to other spammers.
Thanks for the info
Have run spybot and cleared most of my email contacts off my list