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Is my email account compromised?

Hi,
When I try to mark an email as Spam it gives me this message:

Is Bill's account compromised?
You marked your contact's (my_account@yahoo.com) message as spam. Do you think this account may be compromised?
Yes No

Is my account compromised?
What does that mean?
What do I do?
How do I get it uncompomised?

Thank you,
Bill

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John

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Eirman

You marked your contact's (my_account@yahoo.com) message as spam. Do you think this account may be compromised?
Yes No

I think this is asking you think whether the sender's email has been compromised/hijacked.
It is most likely nothing to do with YOUR email.

Why else would you mark a message from one of your contacts as spam?

If you delete the contact you should then be able to mark the email as spam without any issues.

BILL Carlisle

ASKER

my_account@yahoo.com is MY email address... :(
I replace my email address with my_account for this post.

thanks..

BILL Carlisle

ASKER

Hi John,
I am using Yahoo...

John

I would definitely change your Yahoo password right away.

Eirman

Now I'm confused. Does the message definitely say .... Your contact's followed by your email
I still stand by my original post.

It's never any harm to change/strengthen your email password.
Don't forget to update any security info that could be used to retrieve/reset your password.

BILL Carlisle

ASKER

As I said.. this is exactly what it said except that I substitute "my_account" for what MY actual email address is.

Is Bill's account compromised?
You marked your contact's (my_account@yahoo.com) message as spam. Do you think this account may be compromised?
Yes   No

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And that is why I posted this here because it was MY email - bummer!
Thx, Bill

Eirman

Sorry, I really thought that when it referred to a contact, that it must be someone else.

John

It has been close to a week since we said "change your password". Did you? And then, did I have any effect?

BILL Carlisle

ASKER

Hi John,
Yes, I change my password as soon as you mentioned it.
I haven't tried to make something spam to see if anything changed so I have an answer this post until now.
I will see if it still doing it this morning and post again.
Thank you all for your help,
Bill