Looks like been hacked/im not in phillipines asking my contacts to send me money--what do I do --?

This common spamming fraud scam has been around for several years, and the friend of the family will never see that money again - there is no way to trace the actual 'spoofed' or fake address where it was sent. Spammers and scammers have many ways to disguise their actual location ... 1. In case of a hacked Yahoo account, where you cannot sign in, (a changed password and/or secret questions), the Account Verification department offers ways to contact them: After filling in your ID and password as usual, click the proper category of 'I can't sign in' to send an email with all of the information an agent needs to respond within 12-24 hours.

(E-mail has been compromised ...) - Give them your identity using your country, and the same alternate email address or mobile phone number and Security Questions and Answers that you provided during registration or the last time you edited. Knowing the approximate date when you set up the account also helps. You might also be asked for your birthday, ZIP or postal code at the time you last updated ... Check your alternate e-mail for a response too.

Sometimes the mail will be in the Spam folder ... For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/. If you still can’t access your account after going through the “Forgot Your Password” process, you may contact the Customer Care team for assistance.

Click Help on the mail page, then Customer Care, then Live Chat - it make take a while, but a human answers! (If the page loads slowly, refresh it, or click the F5 key.) You will be asked several questions to verify that you are the owner of the account. This is the direct link: http://help.yahoo.com/contact/index?loca... 2.

As soon as you regain control of your account, change all the security: Check that the alternate e-mail address is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, then change it! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers.

Make them unique and long, strong ones with mixed characters! (*** Changing your password also deletes the cookie which apparently inserts that sly trojan address grabber. ***) If you used this password for other accounts, change them too - make every one different.

Make the password much longer than 8 characters, with mixed symbols. Usually, this is all you need to do, although mail will still be sent in the name of the old account for a while ... 3. *** If spam mail was sent to any of your contacts, apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links.

Warn them to change their passwords and scan for malware too, just in case. Set up an alternate 'alias' account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail.

Your friends can trust this new address. (There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box ...) http://edit.yahoo..com/config/list_alias (alternate address) 4. Just to be very sure your computer is not infected, run both an anti-virus and spyware/malware scans, updated and separately - even more than one malware scan, or Trend Micro's Housecall for an online a-v scan.

(*** in 'Safe Mode with Networking' is the only truly effective method - click F8 repeatedly when the screen first lights on boot-up, then arrow keys and Enter to navigate. ***) Re-boot into Safe Mode for each separate scan. These are the best free anti-malware programs ... http://housecall.trendmicro.com http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free http://www.superantispyware.com.

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