My e-mail's been hacked!!

dandysmom · 11-07-2009, 02:10 AM

Someone has apparently hacked into my account and has sent an e-mail purportedly from me about losing a wallet and wanting to borrow $2000.00! It seems to have been sent to all my contacts....just found out when I got a call from a friend!! It IS NOT ME!! Disregard; I'll get in touch with Yahoo and see what to do about this; what a mess!!

alexgirl73 · 11-07-2009, 07:14 AM

oh my word! That is scary, hope you get it sorted asap Eileen x

Jac · 11-07-2009, 08:14 AM

Eileen I got an email from you this morning. It said that you were in Englans and that you had lost your wallet and needed money to pay your hotel bill and to get home. I knew that if this was true there would be some mention of it here.
The person wants money transferred by western union.
I hope you get it sorted out.
Just relieved that you are infact ok. take care Jacxxx

CathyW · 11-07-2009, 08:20 AM

ive just got that email. as well.
naughty DM fancy coming to the UK and not telling us. mind u how is hyper travel now???
have i got permission to reply something really really abusive n rude back ??? pretty please.i wont rply until i hear from u.

but its sooooo tempting lol

MrsH · 11-07-2009, 08:48 AM

What a scary thing to happen! Hopefully all your email contacts are as wise as you and will disregard the scam as being very dodgy to say the least!

Hope you can get it sorted!

Elaine · 11-07-2009, 08:53 AM

I read this before opening my email box and have now reported your email as a phishing scam. Maybe if every one in your contacts does the same, it'll be stopped.

mattde · 11-07-2009, 08:58 AM

I was just coming on catsey to tell you this.
Hope you get it sorted.

I would now change all passwords, setup a new email account , Gmail or something with a strong password.
Run Good AV software on PC, also run Malwarebytes.

Best of luck Eileen

dinahsmum · 11-07-2009, 09:35 AM

Oh Dm - what a pain for you.
Gmail/googlemail appears to have good security - I get far fewer rubbish messages on my googlemail account that at my original email address.

Strong password = use of numbers and symbols. You don't have to make it terribly complicated; you can use numbers and symbols as proxy letter in an easy password word. For instance
Donuts could become D0^ut$

Kazz · 11-07-2009, 11:39 AM

Hiya Eileen don't worry it will be sorted.....the idiot that hacked your account does not realise that like you your friends have more sense than to just reply.....

angieh · 11-07-2009, 12:20 PM

Why don't you go over to Thunderbird Eileen?

Mind you I get loads of junk and just ditch everything. I even send myself junk!

Hope you get it sorted quickly. It is upsetting.

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