There are two versions of the "Your Account Was Hacked" spam campaign, however, they are essentially identical. A screenshot of another version (and its text) can be found below. Scammers claim that they have hacked the user's email account. To make this seem genuine, they used the 'sp...
I have a yahoo email account that seems to be hacked. Following are hacking activities I have noticed. 1) Spam emails being sent from my account to my account and my recovery email account. 2) Recent emails in inbox are missing 3) New emails in deleted mails folder I have reset password...
Other hacks can be more subtle, and may not be noticed until a credit card is used without your knowledge, or your email account starts sending spam to your contacts. Whatever the symptoms, if you think you've been hacked you need to move quickly to deal with the problem – here’s wh...
This might sound obvious, but if you're like a lot of people, you might not use Yahoo Mail as your primary email account. Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 million monthly active users for its Yahoo Mail service, according to figures the company...
It seems like not a day goes by when I don’t get a question from someone that boils down to their email account having been hacked. Someone, somewhere, has gained access to their account and is using it to sendspam, access other online accounts, hassle contacts, and more. Sometimes pas...
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Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 million monthly active users for its Yahoo Mail service, according to figures the company gave CNET in June. So check the email affiliated with your Yahoo account if you haven't already. Yahoo has started sending ...
There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send ...
It's natural to want to find out who hacked your email and why. Begin by recovering and securing your account. I'll review what steps you can take after that, and their chances of success. Question:I just want to tell you that someone has hacked one of my email IDs and he sent ema...
If you’ve never read my blog before, welcome. I’m the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this. Okay, first off you should go readthis post. It’s entitled “Me Against Google” and the author is unhappy that talkorigins.org was nowhere to...