I was checking my hotmail account earlier today and I went into the Sent folder to check an email I sent yesterday. I found an email sent from my email address to a relative.There is a link in it and it looks to me like spam. I contacted her and advised not to open it. Now I understand how email addresses can be harvested and spam sent but I don't understand how an email was sent from my password protected account.Nobody else used the computer, it was in the room with me. Could someone please explain this and tell me what I should do? The following is the text of the email and it was sent last night about a hour and half after I had used hotmail. I'm usually very careful about logging out of hotmail. Advise would be very much appreciated.
The following is the text of the email
The following is the text of the email
Hai
Mike just called me to tell he had won 2.500 euro for his holiday. He clicked on a site and answered 3 questions on his mobile and bingo. He got the money yesterday, amazing and cool. I am trying right now. I heard they have a budget of over 15.000 prizes.
Don't tell everybody, here is the link I got
Sighoff?
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