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evanesce in wow_ladies

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Mar 17, 2011 13:35

Sooo, if any of you lovely ladies got a scammy account security email today, you may thank whatever jackass hacked my email account. (And not even a good scammy account security email -- it said sent by Blizzard, but still had my email in it's parentheses.) I woke up this morning to 29 bounce-back emails, and another sixty or so in my sent mail, to ( Read more... )

account: authenticator, account: security

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kitk8 March 17 2011, 17:41:36 UTC

I had it happen not that long ago on an email account I've been using for almost a decade. Still have no clue how I was nabbed since all scans before and after of my machine were clean. Changed passwords and let everyone know not to open any emails I'd sent in the last 24 hours. Such a hassle and an extra stress. Good luck!

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evanesce March 17 2011, 18:20:18 UTC

I was hoping that was the case, but I had some sixty-plus emails in my Sent folder that I never sent.

Hence swearing, hence scanning.

voyevoda March 17 2011, 18:22:48 UTC

Yes I did. The spammer escalated his sending so that I was getting 1000 bounced back emails a day and I eventually gave up on the email.

Finally a little while ago Hotmail went "4000 emails a day don't sound right durp!" so they locked the account and I went through some security measures to get it back, but pretty much just to be an archive as I moved on to other emails now.

I did get some lulz looking at reply emails from people who thought they'd outwitted the scammer and would taunt him, when in reality the email got sent to me. :P

vulgar_toshiya March 17 2011, 18:35:40 UTC

This happened to my Gmail like...yesterday. Had to answer some security questions to get into my email, and had a bunch of rejected emails from everyone on my contact list.

Pretty strange considering I haven't downloaded anything in a while and don't visit more than a handful of websites.

killiara March 17 2011, 18:56:29 UTC

Whew.
So THAT explains the six emails from "Blizard" about account information changed, please follow the link if you didn't do it.

ghosts March 17 2011, 20:34:54 UTC

I think you mean don't follow the link? Telling the OP to follow a link in a phishing email is a bad, bad idea :/

butterbuns March 18 2011, 04:52:55 UTC

No, I think they mean follow the link. As in the emails tell you to, not as in they're telling the OP to.

killiara March 19 2011, 00:34:43 UTC

I meant that the content of the email said 'follow this link'.