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Topic: Hacked e-mail account
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 20, 2014 12:15 PM
folks, I'm just letting you know that some rat has hacked my e-mail account, and I can't get in to rectify it ...
So, if you have any e-mails from me in the last 48 hours, (except you, Dino, I sent you one), they are NOT from me. Immediately delete them!
OSI
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 21, 2014 08:57 PM
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I want to secure my email address.
Rob, I am not sure you know about this, but if you join with any social media such as Facebook, Linkedin, Google+ and sort of, your email is most likely distributed to other members of the same media.
The other possibility, when you pay or receive money with paypal and your paypal address is the same with your email address, this gives a possibility your email address getting publicized.
Lastly, long time ago (now Ebay changes the mailing system) when we asked or answered a question from another Ebay member directly from your email address, it went directly to the other person email address too, and from there the following communication would be between private email addresses of the two members (did not go through Ebay mail server). Now, Ebay has changed it.
I am just giving you the possible situation.
cheersm
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted May 22, 2014 01:11 PM
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"Rob, I am not sure you know about this, but if you join with any social media such as Facebook, Linkedin, Google+ and sort of, your email is most likely distributed to other members of the same media."
Groan...
When Osi's account was hacked, which can happen to us all, his list of contacts was targeted.
I was on that list. My personal email was on Osi's lists of contacts.
All I want to know is, why was my personal email on Osi's list, as I do not remember giving it to him.
Trust me, it is not available on social networks.
I may have forgotten when and why I passed on my email to Osi, which is why I am asking, because if he doesn't know, than this goes deeper still.
I'm simply asking for clarification.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 23, 2014 12:16 PM
Rob, I don't think your e-mail address was on my contact list, but I do remember that at some time in the past, you did write me, but I can't remember for what.
Were you the one I received the STAR WARS audio from?
At any rate, I can't access my old account, so I can't absolutely verify as to whether you were on my contact list, but I did have a bad habit of not emptying my old e-mails out, sometimes for a number of years, and if you had written me in the past, I have had a habit of keeping at least one e-mail from film fellow film lovers in my messages section so that, even if I didn't have it in my contact list, I would still have it otherwise, I'd just go through my endless pages and find it.
These hackers are bizzare people! I just found out that my gas company (for utilities, of all things!) was hacked an someone turned on a service for my house that I never verified.
Why the bloody hell, mess with something that doesn't even involve making money for yourself as a hacker?!! That just makes no sense to me!
One thing is for sure, whoever the hacker is, they are someone who likes collecting e-mail addresses, whoever they are. That's the only other reason besides getting at your money that I can't see for doing it.
HEY!! Good advice for everyone!
I asked my bank if my families CD's are safe, and I was informed that the only way a person can access a CD to get money out, is to come in, in person with state I.D. card, and take money out, and they can't be accessed either digitally, internet or by phone!
Good thing to keep in mind! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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