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I have closed my email account but still people are getting email from that account Why?

  • Author of this Article - Jyoti Raut »
  • Published on September 08, 2010 @ 10:30PM PST |

Conclusion On Getting Emails - There are various reason like temporary unactivity, disable of any service, spam emails, scam may cause that if you deleted your email account but still it can be possible that you will see people getting email from your mail account.

I have got an email to my another email address from my one of the client that he is receive fake and spam emails from my email account. I have closed the specific email near to one month ago. But now how can anyone use the particular email account to send those type of emails? Is it possible that my email account has been hacked even if i have closed the specific email account. Or may be someone reopen the email account for sending spam emails? I want to know the answer as soon as possible.

Getting Emails

There are major three reasons responsible to get an emails from the closed email account.

Reasons for getting emails from the closed Email account

  • It may be possible that your getting an email from closed acount because the email account has been hacked by someone.
  • The email account has been reopen by the same email account holder and he is sending an email to you.
  • Your email account has not been yet closed permanently so spammer may sending spam email with your email address.

Those are the major reasons because of someone may get an email from your email address.

Sometimes we think that we closed the email address and it may not possible to anyone to access to the particular email account, but truly it is not possible to close an email account with one step.

And if you have some doubt that the email account has been hacked by someone then i suggest you to change the password, change your security questions and other personal information setting which you only can know but don't closed the specific email account, it may be possible for the hackers to reactivate your closed account.

There is a very big disadvantage if you close the particular email address is that you will lost your emails, address book contacts etc. it may needed for some work may be after sometime but you are not able to get it because you don't have any access on your email address if you have closed it Once. All though you can reactivate your email account Before a particular Time but the emails and address book you may or may not be able to view after that.

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