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JayStarless
join:2008-03-06
KT3 5QW
1 edit | reply to SnowyOne
Re: [Phish] Hotmail Scam? Please help, I'm in severe distress
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
Philippines
 ·SmartBro
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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