OT: Email hacking issues?

[Newbflat]

Im curious of there have been any other gouty people here? who have had there Yahoo account hacked recently?

I had to deal with that today and I'm trying to find leeds to were it might have originated from.

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Bill….

[zip2play]

How can you tell if your/my Yahoo account has been hacked?

[Newbflat]

Well im not sure but this is what happened to me..

Everyone on my email list received an email 'from me' about friends that were in trouble in the UK and needed money fast. It was signed by me and from my email address. If you replied, the reply address was subtly different. I never received the email. Only people in my address list and and there was nothing in my sent box on my Mac.

I called yahoo and then changed my password and stuff and removed/replaced a fake email address that had been placed in my account as a 'return email address'….. So if you replied to the email, it sent it not back to me but the F#ckers that hacked my account. My mother fell for it, replied to them and just about sent them $1500…

All my 'sent emails' from over the years were deleted from my yahoo account as well.

I was just checking to see if anyone was having issues…

Bill….

[Newbflat]

Sorry to bring this up here. I sent something like this out to all the forums I'm on to try and track down how this might have happened. I have sense figured out it was most likely hacked from within yahoo its self.

Moderator: …..Please feel free to delete this thread.

[zip2play]

I cannot imagine anyone on a bulletin board being able to get into your account. I don't even publish my?e-mail addy on any bulletin board much less my passsword. To get to your address book require a real?falldown of Yahoo security, or so it seems.

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I guess a good Golden Rule: never send money until you verify the legitimacy of the e-mail request.

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So sorry about your mother's theft.

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(Make sure you have a SOLID password, as long as possible with numbers and mixed capital and small letters.)

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