Question by Extreme Pacifist: How can someone else have my exact email address if they have to register with yahoo, wouldn’t yahoo block it.
I recive about a hundred emails in my bulk folder daily. I don’t mind, I just review the bulk mail and empty the folder, but sometimes a relevant email will be in my bulk folder and I just move it to my inbox. My two questions are: 1:a) Why do I recieve so much bulk mail,and 1:b) how can I stop them ? and 2 
and this is the important one) I recieve an email in my bulk folder at least once a week from tsoldo@yahoo.com, that is the exact same email as mine, and it says:
The finest Swiss Rolex watches & brand bags
Deae customer!!
Discover a wide range of hot quality Rol_ex watchs offered at discount
prices.
Among the timepieces on sale make sure to choose a top desinger’s watch
of famous brand
featuring exactly the function and style you need. Hurry up…..
Find 2007 Top designer Swiss Ro lex watches !!
GOGO http://uyrabomuy.com
so i click the link, I go to the website , and it really is replica watches, but the actual address is:
http://www.soeiejwj.com/ and the site is called Prestige Replicas.
My biggest concern is not that I am being solicited, but that someone else can have the exact same email as mine, Anyone could email anyone else using my email address and they would think it was from me, you understand?
How is this possible that someone else can have the same exact email as me? I don’t want to change my email address after all these years, but, I assume that you have the power to stop someone else from using my email address, by threatening to cancel their yahoo account. Thank you . Sincerely, Tony Soldo
Best answer:
Answer by vthowe
1. The spammers obtain your email address from various sources. Could be mailing lists you subscribe to, anyone you gave your email address among many others. Sometimes they will use a system that creates millions of random email addresses to get through and then if you respond or click anything they know you are for real.
2. Your address is being “spoofed” there are programs out there that allow you to make it appear that it comes from someone else, in this case you. There is work in industry to clean things up so this can’t happen but it’s the nature of the beast for some time to come.
Any threats to these spammers likely won’t get through to them.
Best thing to do is to create a new account that you only share on a VERY limited term and have another account that you use to sign up for things.
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