why is my email address showing up in chat rooms?
435823
Because you got to change your nickname and/or hide your email in the profile settings.
184446
might be a problem with the exchange server, if you are sure you have the address right. they may also have settings to block email with no subject line.
153552
Make sure the message board in run by someone you trust or on a site you trust. There should be an option to not reveal your email address on the board. If there is no such option, do not post there. Do not give out any personally identifiable information.
1065365
Is your email account with Yahoo ??? As it has happened to me with my Yahoo Mail account aswell. There is a hidden spam email somewhere hidding in your Inbox. probably at the very last page of your inbox. Try looking for it page-by-page. Dont worry, it wont be an important email, as it is spam for sure.
1085380
If you use Yahoo Address Guard (options) "address guard" you can give out a different yahoo address (example: yournameemail-wal-mart@yahoo.com) whenever you sign up for something.   If you get email at that address you know who is sending it or who sold it.\n\nCheck it out.  Great yahoo feature.
1085
may be u posted your email-id in some publicaly viewable page. Always use a format that is human readable but not machine readable like : \nme [at] acme [dot] com\ninstead of...\nme@acme...(dont want this id to be spammed :) )\n\nAlways take care of not giving email id to ne stranger. and DO not post it on net just for the sake of utting it.\n\nhope u get lesser spam.
650822
There was a spam act put into place to where they are supposed to contain in the email a link to click on to remove yourself off the list.  Look for it, im sure its probably in tiny font or something.
67938
It is most likely that your email address has been used to "spoof" emails to people. Spoofing is where someone uses your email address as the address on an email they sent to others. Difficult to defend against.\n\nAnother possiblity is that you have a computer virus that has taken over your email address book, but then the emails would come from people that were in your address book. You should use an antivirus software program at all times. Just in case you might want to do a virus scan of your computer.
402473
If he's only accessing his account on the Yahoo website then someone is spoofing his email address to spam. If his account is setup in Outlook Express or another email program on his computer, it could be a virus on the computer itself.
487664
Contact the email provider and have them check their server. Most likely it is a domain problem.\n\nAlso, run an anti-spyware program to check your own computer
653106
either add their addresses to your address book. or if it's yahoo email, go to options in the top right corner, there is a thing to make spam not spam.
748616
It means the spammers got your email address from some places.\nYou can try a few things.\n1.  Get a new email address and don't give it casually to anyone except for your good friends. Don't expose your email address when you post messages on public web sites.\n2. If you need to keep your current email address, you can try to use  spam killer. Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail have some kind of spam filter, but still there are lots of junk mail (including porn) that got through.  \n3. As to how to protect your own email address: for web site owners, please don't put your email address directly on your web site.  Try to use form mail instead (so that your friend or visitor can send messages on-line without know your email address.)\nIf you have to display your email in some way, try some tricks to avoid those auto email collectors which craw all the web sites to grab your email address for spamming. \ne.g.   If your email address is  king@kingsite.com,  show it like this  "king at  kingsite dot com" \n\nHope the above little tips ease your pain a bit.  :-)\nBy the way,  never buy from the junk mail ( otherwise, you support them and encourage more.)   If you spot the junk mail by its subject or sender's name/address, delete them directly without opening them.  Resist the temptation, let's fight the spammers together.
823458
if they're not to your exact address, but have a similar screenname as you, then it's most likely spam. i've gotten emails like that and it's always about "work at home and make millions!" etc. just add it to your spam. next time you see an email sender's address that looks funny, don't open it because it will tell the sender that your address is still active and you'll just get more and more!!
633001
Most of the time you'll be able to lodge a complaint with the operators of the chatroom. They should be able to help with the problem. Apart from that it usually isn't that easy to get the address of a person and you need to provide more details of what kind of chatroom it is, etc.
967756
It would be complicated, but you could always check your 'Sent' folder and outbox for hints. Also, you could mail round your contacts and ask if they have had any odd emails from your account. And, of course if you suspect or discover something, change your password. :D
264131
This is because one of your emails was reported as spam, by a yahoo user. Unforturnately, their is no way for you to be removed from the spam database, as many entries of spammers are sent every second.
1097326
it does show your email address