i have not deleted Tim's email or facebook account.
I don't know why, I think I am just not ready yet.
It's been just over 10 months.
Hugs, Sandi

Hey, I'm an IT guy and they don't have to hack an account to "send" email from his account. You can change the sender email address via simple software. ( at work my users sometimes get emails that were sent to them from themselves, lol )

What they may have done was get ahold of his contact list. And then sent junk email to everyone on that list. Sucks, I know.

It's also to still get regular mail addressed to a loved one who has died. I still get medical suggestions from our insurance company even though my wife died a year ago.

It's part of our broken technology that systems are designed to send stuff automatically, but the guy ( girl ) who wrote them never worried about someone dying :)

Bob

I just changed the password. I kept checking it because a few acquaintances did not know of his passing and I let them know.
If you change the password on your husband's account, the spam should eventually decrease. Sorry that happened. It is always disturbing.

My wife and I were both techies and had multiple email accounts between us. I have added all her email accounts to my ipad and systematically have been unsubscribing routine things she got in order to clean the volume up a bit. In the past couple of days I have been reading her old emails to me and others and its like a trip into the past. It has actually helped me remember a few things. I will probably never delete them. I also still have her Facebook page up where I and others post to on a regular basis.

I kept my husband's email account because that's what we used for confirmation of payments, etc. I haven't used an account separate from him except at work since before we were married. It makes me feel happy, not sad (I was surprised at first too) to type in his inititals.

In defense of technology, ;-) Bob, I'm sure you know that we can easily delete the names of people who have passed on by running the list against available records of deaths. It is the humans at the companies who choose not to spend the money for that kind of purge before mailing.

I am probably less sensitive because I work in the mailing industry, but I am kind of amused when the mail includes hearing aid offers to both my husband and my dad, who died in the 1990s and a magazine offer for my mom who died in 2004. They have all moved on to whatever is after this, but in this world, my home is still their home..

I think IT Guy Bob has answered some questions here. The account I use is in my husband's name and many of the seasonal rental people only have this address. I have no reason to change it at this time as there would be too many to notify of the change.

Maggie

I still use the combined email address we used since we bought our Compac64. Anyone remember that computer? Lol. Sharon

My husband kept all passwords to his various accounts in a little notebook that he made sure I had. Unfortunately, I closed out his email accounts before I went through to de-activate all his various web accounts elsewhere! and it seems you can't log in if the email is de-activated, apparently they must ping it or something.

But, yeah, I closed off his many emails fairly early on. I didn't want anything highjacked or mail piling up and I knew I'd never be checking them.

What I can't do is empty his desk drawers!