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Email hacked
By John Watts
Hi,
I opened my email today and in my inbox was six
failed emails that had supposedly been sent by me. I was a bit surprised by this as I knew that I had not
sent them. The only answer was that my account had been hacked. I instantly thought my computer had been hacked too, so I ran a virus check on it, that thankfully came back clear. The emails had a link to a website that sold electrical
goods and made out that I had bought a plasma tv for a
very low price! I wish! Some scammer had hacked into my hotmail account to try to sell crap to my contact list. I started to look into this problem on the internet and
found that the problem was wide spread, and that when
the email provider was told about it they did not take
any action. So, if you find that your account as been hacked, you are
one of many but as far as your provider is concerned
you are on your own!! Reading blogs on the web I found
out the only thing you can do if it happens to you is
to change your password for a stronger one. The hardest password to hack is one with at lest
fourteen characters and with upper and lower case letters
and symbols,the easiest way to remember a tough password
is to make one around a sentence:My car is red and can do
a 108 miles an hour.
My password now has 33 characters and upper/lower case.
Making it hard to guess but easy to remember. I hope this as been of help to anyone who have found
themselves in this situation.
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Great sugestions on the passwords, John. This intel is loaded with useful information.
Thank you for sharing.
Keep up the good work.
Frederick
This is very common and doesn't mean your email account has been hacked [so relax!], it means your email address has made its way onto a spamming/scamming list; which might be worse as these things go round and round for years - currently the Chinese seem to be buying old spamming lists up. Your address is used as cover, any bounces come to you and not the spammer, and there will be somewhere in the mail a link to somewhere else. Try clicking on that Blah Blah button in your email client [if you don't have it, get Eudora, it's free]. Blah blah will reveal lots more information on the sending servers.
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