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vliktor

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Re: [Phish] Hotmail Scam? Please help, I'm in severe distress

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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