Emails been hacked!

[Daniël Bos]

Sorry for your woes.

I've just installed a password manager.

So all my important passwords are weird and unique and complicated and chanced regularly, I've just to remember the one master password, technology does the rest

[Burgess]

Sorry for your woes.

I've just installed a password manager.

So all my important passwords are weird and unique and complicated and chanced regularly, I've just to remember the one master password, technology does the rest

 

That's less secure than you think. Can still be taken by key loggers or phising scams.

[Ty Korrigan]

Here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=george+agdgdgwngo

 

Ty

[peatff]

They might not have hacked your actual account but be spoofing your address. If any of your "victims" checks the full headers on the message they will see where it has come from and all the re-routes it has gone through.

[Gary Prentice]

They might not have hacked your actual account but be spoofing your address. If any of your "victims" checks the full headers on the message they will see where it has come from and all the re-routes it has gone through.

 

Tbh I don't understand the difference. All I know is that my contacts were accessed, then sent a short message and attachment. Some of these were people I'd had contact with several yrs ago!

[Arborist]

I had the same email as kevinjohnsonmbe but didn't get to open it.

[Gary Prentice]

I had the same email as kevinjohnsonmbe but didn't get to open it.

 

Probably a good thing:biggrin:

 

Couple of people have said that they tried to open the attachment ( which led to a Dropbox) but couldn't. Guess it's a good thing the hacker seems to made some Mistake or who knows what would have happened!

[Ty Korrigan]

It is common here for businesses to recieve scam emails from psuedo governmental departments informing of the obligation to pay 300euros for an official register of like businesses or even false invoices for services in the hope that the office gets confused and actually pays.

Normally they target newer businesses but I seem to get a never ending stream of calls and emails informing me that if I don't upgrade this that and the other health and safety wall poster or pay this trade tax then I will get fined 3000euros blah blah blah.

On a personal note, I fear for my Mother, for if ever my Father was to go first then the elder Mrs Lee would fall without reflection for even the most blatant email scammer.

Ty

[NFG]

This sort of spam is fairly easy to defeat, If your mail is read via a browser like Gmail or you use a POP3 client like Thunderbird then use something like Mailwaher Pro which accesses your POP mail store before you download/view your mail.

 

Theres a small leraning process so the software understands what is junk along with white listing etc to increase accuracy but once set its fairly good

 

You can also bounce messages back to spammers, which they dont like but personally, Id have the lot of them rounded up & shot.

 

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[Ty Korrigan]

Another unwanted software has installed itself on my 'puter.

It's a search engine called Tom's guide.

May be one of the reasons for the recent slow performance when starting up.

On Windows 10, need to find how to get rid of it.

Ty