my email was highjacked! any advice?

Discussion in 'Computers and The Internet' started by 7river, Jun 22, 2004.

  1. 7river

    7river on a distinguished path

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    my hotmail account started getting delivery failure notices. aparently someone is useing my account to send spam. i changed my password but today i got it again. seems to be in german. what can i do? anyway to track the highjacker?

    thanks for any help:)
     
  2. Maverick

    Maverick Banned

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    Well, I'm not surprised you got this message again. It might be a response to some failed e-mails sent prior to the password change, but the returns hadn't returned yet. If it persists though, check with the MSN support to see how to rectify the problem, that maybe they can reset some settings.
    Make sure you're password isn't a word in the dictionary, a good one would be a combination or words and letters with varying case sizes.
    It sounds like whoever did it, was stupid. If they were smart, they would have locked you out. Consider yourself lucky.
    Unfortunately, that same person, if their interested in the address, might not give up on trying to hi-jack you're account permanently.
    I hate to plant paranoia, but that's what I have to offer.
     
  3. meishka

    meishka Grease Munky

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    notify hotmail that theres something wrong
     
  4. 7river

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    thanks for the responses

    i didn't receive anymore. maybe it was before the password change. yea, i'll see what hotmail has to say.

    peace and love>>>
     
  5. Sus

    Sus Hip Forums Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I've been getting the same things in Hotmail, even in an account that I don't send anything out from. I figured it was just spam meant to get me to open the email and send out a virus. I have always just deleted these emails, without opening them. Maybe I should check this out a little further....
     
  6. Herbert

    Herbert Member

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    It could also be that someone else, who has your address in their address book, is infected with a virus and the little bugger is spoofing your hotmail address.

    If that´s the case, there´s not much you can do about it. :eek:
     
  7. Flowerian

    Flowerian Senior Member

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    Actually, your account isn't used to send spam. The spam-emails only claim to be from your account, so the one who really sends the mail won't get all the mailer-deamon-messages of not-existing accounts...
     
  8. 7river

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    now that would make sense...any suggestions to counter this?
     
  9. Flowerian

    Flowerian Senior Member

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    Change your account. No other solution. Hotmail can't do anything about it, the only one would be ther person who sends the spam, well, you can imagine what this person will do.... :rolleyes:
     
  10. groovy41

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    If I were you just don't open any email you don't trust, just deleet it! Thank god I don't have hotmail, I had that once, and I got a ton of junk mail, if anything try Juno, heck it is only fifteen bucks a month, and I have not gotten that much email from them. Have a nice day!
     
  11. veinglory

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    A lot of people spam block all hotmail addresses too -- juts because they are used so much from spam. the other generic hosts are a better bet (mail, netscape, lycos etc)
     

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