My Email Account has been Hacked :(

[tampa24]

Hello to all my friends in here. I wanted to give a heads up to anyone whose email address I might have. Please do NOT open any emails coming from me from my yahoo account. Delete them immediately.

I wish I knew what else I might do to pass the word. It appears to be going after the address books of everyone on my contact list who pens the email. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause anyone. For those who are computer savvy, any advice you can give me would be helpful. I have deleted my address book and all messages in storage. I am still trying to contact my email provider to get more advice.

 

[mikeyank]

Hello to all my friends in here. I wanted to give a heads up to anyone whose email address I might have. Please do NOT open any emails coming from me from my yahoo account. Delete them immediately.

I wish I knew what else I might do to pass the word. It appears to be going after the address books of everyone on my contact list who pens the email. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause anyone. For those who are computer savvy, any advice you can give me would be helpful. I have deleted my address book and all messages in storage. I am still trying to contact my email provider to get more advice.

I did get one of those emails, and I opened it as it had your name as the subject, but I did not click on the link, so I think I am okay. The same thing happened with an email from my boss at work, and from another forumite who I share emails with in the last three weeks. I am not terribly computer literate so I know less than you do about these things, but all seems okay with my computer for now. Good luck getting it all straightened out.

 

[ChuckBluMedia]

I would suggest to just change your password as soon as you can. Think of one that is very difficult that no one can guess, capital, numbers, special characters help. And update every 3 months is a good rule.

Sorry that happened to you, its a pain when that happens

 

[tampa24]

Thank you for the support Chuck. It's great to hear from you by the way.

It's been a very stressful day trying to get it all sorted and wondering what the ramifications were for my family and friends. It's even more scary being gay and having several sets of friends, family and acquaintances that you purposely never mix. You don't know what harm may come of your interpersonal relationships with all these people. I've done the changing of password. (With lots of letters, numbers, caps, etc.) I'll keep in mind to change it every 3 months. I was told by yahoo that it appeared to be more of a virus situation than an actual hacker. They updated the whole account for me and said it was clean. The distinction of hacking vs. virus is still rather moot though since they have stolen my address book already and have included other addresses in each spam. I'm still on pins and needles waiting to find out what other shoes may drop in the coming days.

It just gets me that some people have nothing better to do with their time than cause worry, stress and fear for total strangers who they've never met and who've never done anything bad to them. Such is the age we still live in I guess.

Thanks again Chuck! x

 

[joeychuck2]

I hope it gets fixed fast. the best thing to do is cancel the email accts and start over. for me it would be a problem since my accts are VERY old

 

[johnny]

Dear Tampa
Just want to say Sorry... Shit always happens to good people.Hope you don't make yourself sick. Fucking Drag.
Hang in there .No need to reply. Just thinking of you.
xo Johnny

 

[br6205]

Be aware of Norton Lifelock spam

 

[BrokeStraightBoys]

That sucks what a pain in the ass, sorry that happened to you Tampa.

 

[br6205]

I caught it & verified it was spam with my tech guy who wanted a copy he can add to his collection The key thing is never give information out unless you initiate it yourself. Yahoo has a good spam guard but something new can get through as it did here. Be sure you send it to your spam file & delete it there so it will be caught next time.

 

[kgmets]

Sorry to read that. Hope things resolve ASAP.

 

[br6205]

For anyone tied to the net as a user it is good to have a Technical person in charge of your internet safety. I have had a man & over the years we have become friends. Therefore I knew when I saw this it had to be a scam. I just posted it to warn others, never give out personal information except when you are the initiator & do not delete the scam but place it in your scam folder then delete it . If it is scam about say Amazon send it to them. The same holds for other sites you may frequent.

 

[mikeyank]

That sucks what a pain in the ass, sorry that happened to you Tampa.

Mark, this is an old thread posted by Tampa in 2014. It was posted on today, but Tampa had his issue eight years ago.

 

[br6205]

Unfortunately the issue is permanent and hackers and spammers will always be 1 step ahead;