Some one hacked into my e-mail acc. and is sending people in my contacts bogus e-mails. Some are Viagra adds. Very embarrassing?
You need to inform whomever is running the email service that you are having this problem. Bug them until the account is truly closed. If fake emails are still being sent out, the account is not closed.
Your e-mail password is not hacked. They just got your contact list through some website and sending impersonate e-mail just like it was send through your email ID. For example you can send a email to your friend from this below site as impersonating that the email was send from [email protected] mailgot.com/ The question is how they got your contact list?
Some website asks your email password to send request email to your friends in your email contact list to signup. Those were the site which sells your name, email ID and contact list. This method doesn't require your email password.
So even after changing your email password, they can send their ad email to your friend list. Tell your friend to block your email ID in gmail, yahoo,.. and you signup for new email ID.
(IMPORTANT: Before I get to my story, if your Yahoo! Email has been hacked I recommend that you immediately change your password, update your security questions and ensure your Yahoo! Mobile and Y!
Messenger are both up-to-date. You should also visit Yahoo! Email Abuse Help and use this process if you are unable to login to your Yahoo!
(UPDATE 12/13/11: Yahoo has introduced second sign-in verification as an added security measure. It will require that you add a mobile phone number and verify it via a text message. It happened just before we arrived at the San Francisco Zoo.
We are at a red light on Sloat Boulevard when my phone started to vibrate. Had the rapture come a day late? I was getting undeliverable messages.
Lots of them. My Yahoo email had been hacked! Here are the two important lessons I learned as a result.
I didn’t want our day at the Zoo ruined, me staring into my phone resetting passwords and figuring out what happened. So I put the problem on the back burner and proceeded to have a fun family day. But I did take time to quickly tap out a response to people who replied to the spam coming from my hijacked account.
Because they took the time and effort to give me a heads up that I had a problem. These were good people. The thing is, I’d gotten a number of these same emails lately from other hacked Yahoo accounts.
I figured these people knew they’d been compromised and I didn’t need to respond. With the shoe on the other foot, I realized those emails were comforting even though I was well aware of the problem. I’ll shoot off an email the next time I get a hacked email from someone.
The odds are that I will get another one of those emails because I learned just how easy Yahoo makes it for hackers. Upon getting home I went about securing my account. On a lark, I checked Yahoo’s ‘View your recent login activity’ link.
Sure enough at 10:03 AM my account was accessed from Romania. This obvious login anomaly didn’t set off any alarms? Shouldn’t my security questions have been presented in this scenario?
I have never logged in from Romania before. I’ve never logged in from outside the US. Yahoo knows this.
In fact, Yahoo knows quite a bit about my location. My locations puts me in three states: California, New York and Pennsylvania. I also have location history turned on, so it’s not just my own manually saved locations (some of which are ancient), but Yahoo’s automated location technology keeping track of me.
Do you see Romania in this list? Why is Yahoo making it this easy for spammers to hijack accounts? Make them work a little bit!
At a minimum, make them spoof their location. Yahoo should have noted this anomaly and used my security questions to validate identity. I still would have had to change my password (which wasn’t that bad) but I would have avoided those embarrassing emails.
A simple rule set could have been applied here where users are asked to validate identity if the login (even a successful one) is outside of a 500 mile radius of any prior location. I’ve had a Yahoo account for over 10 years without a problem, even as I moved my business accounts over to Gmail. Yesterday I thanked those friends who had my back.
Unfortunately, Yahoo wasn’t one of them.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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