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SnowyOne
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Re: [Phish] Hotmail Scam? Please help, I'm in severe distress
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said by JayStarless  :Has such a phishing scam been heard of? I don't see any motive for a hacker to go into my account and have conversations with people, including one that included my age, many of my interests and a photo from facebook. I'm really on the verge of a breakdown, as she was literally and by name, my Star. Any theories, or help? Sorry if this is the wrong section, I am so upset. Sure, of course phishers take over the mailboxes of their victims & assume their victims identity. Nothing at all unusual about that, it is what they do after all. Financial gain is by far the most common motive but it's absolutely not the only motive. I've seen phishers take over a victims identity & their associated mail account to purchase services at places such as
»www.livejasmin.com/
I've seen them use their victims names & pictures as their own for many different reasons. Look at how stupid these phishers look. I can hardly blame them for wanting to look like someone else. I have little doubt that you are a victim, I'm just not sure if it's victim to a phisher or victim of getting busted, but you do deserve to be believed. The least common of the activities you've mentioned is the phisher did not change the password to the mail account he hijacked. Now if it turns out that the password was changed by someone other than yourself & you managed to take back control of the mail account at some later point then your credibility just went to 100%.
At any rate, it's not common but I've seen what you described happen ~half a dozen times over an equal amount of years.
Whatever the case is one thing remains true. Be more careful with your stuff. | |
JayStarless
join:2008-03-06
KT3 5QW
1 edit | Thank you so much for your responses.
The only knowledge I have of a phishing scam I had accidentally clicked was on myspace, but that was about a year ago.
The only other thing I can think of is last year someone had a keylogger with firefox, but I thought I had deleted all of this. They didnt seem malicious though, so I'm not sure if its for victim identity
What can I do other then change passwords/emails? Please can I have proof of such scams, cos my friend really doesn't believe me, and I havent eaten or slept since.
The worse thing though, is that at the time of her finding out and messaging me calling me a pervert, was about the time the messages disappeared off the actual hotmail interface, apart from one that was left from yesterday that I found just now.
I use outlook which is on 24/7 with protection & avast and asus additional protection to stop spam, and i have a spam/profanity filter too, so I'm guessing thats why I haven't noticed the emails.
What options do I have? | |
vliktor
join:2005-07-27
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1 edit | Again, never ever give out your password to anyone. Sometimes, the best explanation to a problem is the simplest one. As the other posters mentioned, she may be deliberately responsible for sending out those emails, she may have given out the password, her computer may have been compromised and the password leaked out to the rest of the hacking/phishing/scamming community, etc. This type of phishing/hacking activity happens all the time.
I used to work at the Fraud/Abuse department of an ISP, and there have been instances of accounts compromised, with over 300+ new email addresses (!) added on the account, all used to send out 419/phishing/spamming email messages. I'm afraid that all that protection you mentioned you have on your computer won't defend you from the weakest aspect of all in computer security: the human aspect. | |
JayStarless
join:2008-03-06
KT3 5QW | Thanks for all the replies guys,
Still a bit of a mystery to me, hopefully my friend comes to terms with the reality.
Thanks again | |
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