E-mai spam - help!

[savengeli]

Me (as the forum admin) and also my forum's members are getting some spam e-mail. In these e-mails the sender is marked as it was me, so the e-mail address of the sender is my e-mail address. I know that this spammer is not registered to my forum, because it is a very small forum and I know all the members. I just checked the member list and there is nobody unwanted in that list. What can I do?

Edit: btw quests are able to see members' e-mail addresses. How can I put there such a setting that guests can read messages but cannot see anybody's e-mail address? (But members have to be able to see e-mail addresses of those people who have allowed other users to see it)

[Kill Em All]

So your email address has probably been compromised.... steps I suggest you follow.
1. Run a bunch of AV scans and then change your email address's password, and your cPanel password, login password for forum, and any other password would probably be a good idea...
2. go to Admin>Configuration>Security and Moderation>General>Allow viewable email addresses>make sure that is unticked>Save

[Road Rash Jr.]

His email address may not be compromised, it is a favorite trick of the spammers to show someone elses email address but if you right click on the message and then options it will show the real senders return email address. Report that address and the senders IP address to a reputable anti-spammer site to black list them.

[Kill Em All]

Ah true, forgot about that.

[savengeli]

His email address may not be compromised, it is a favorite trick of the spammers to show someone elses email address but if you right click on the message and then options it will show the real senders return email address. Report that address and the senders IP address to a reputable anti-spammer site to black list them.

Yeah my email address is not compromised, the real sender is someone else than my e-mail address.

[Kill Em All]

Well I would imagine, if they are smart, that it is to late to make changes cause I'm sure he keeps all the email address on a txt file or something. But you really should go to the area in my first post and do that.