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AZPops
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Jul 27, 2013

Email Warning / Alert

Hope it's OK to start this thread here DOC. HIDEOUT sent me a PM asking if I sent her an email (the red flag was the title to the email was suspicious).

When I tried opening to my email account. I found that Yahoo had already locked my account due to suspicious activity (my email account was compromised) till I changed my password.

So if anyone received an email from me, trash / delete it as I didn't send it to you.

Thanks,

Lance aka Pops
  • xteacher's avatar
    xteacher
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    Jul 27, 2013
    My computer hates anything Yahoo based, and often won't open it. I use gmail.
  • Francesca_Knowl's avatar
    Francesca_Knowl
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    Jul 27, 2013
    I doubt anyone specifically in this forum is being "targeted"- the problem has been around for awhile, and it seems to be specific to Yahoo. My husband's Yahoo account got hit a few months ago.

    I'm the only user at this IP address that ever accesses this forum and my (Gmail) account has remained untouched.
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    magnusfide
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    Jul 27, 2013
    AZPops wrote:
    Hope it's OK to start this thread here DOC. HIDEOUT sent me a PM asking if I sent her an email (the red flag was the title to the email was suspicious).

    When I tried opening to my email account. I found that Yahoo had already locked my account due to suspicious activity (my email account was compromised) till I changed my password.

    So if anyone received an email from me, trash / delete it as I didn't send it to you.

    Thanks,

    Lance aka Pops


    The same thing happened to my email account. Apparently someone is targeting members of this forum. You can find meanness everywhere it seems.
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    AZPops
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    Jul 27, 2013
    Pepperoni wrote:
    Do a good virus scan. Usually these things grab your address book to send spam. It may have left the capability to send password changes back to the bad boys.



    I did a full scan with my "paid" AVG and Malwarebytes programs and noting came up. I'll do a manual full sweep every so often. But maybe I should schedule / set the auto sweep closer together.
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    Pepperoni
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    Jul 27, 2013
    Do a good virus scan. Usually these things grab your address book to send spam. It may have left the capability to send password changes back to the bad boys.

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