BS: hacked email

Subject: BS: hacked email
From: kendall
Date: 29 May 12 - 12:26 PM

Some son of a bitch has hacked my email account. Ignore anything that says you should check this out.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 May 12 - 01:21 PM

Change your password promptly, if you haven't already.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 29 May 12 - 02:25 PM

Best to delete any email from Kendall without opening it until this gets straightened out.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: CupOfTea
Date: 29 May 12 - 03:55 PM

That's such a nasty feeling, hacked email. Last year was my first time hacked in over 20 years online (thank you AT&T U-verse). Had one friend who wasn't net savvy enough to realize it was a hack email who thundered back at me about sending her that HORRIBLE STUFF!!!

A thing to watch out for, is once you've had your email address dumped in someone's spam filter, subsequent emails from you may end up there. It took several weeks before I realized some of my email was no longer getting through.

Good luck getting clear of this aggravation. Most of yer friends are likely to know yer not heir to a mis-placed African fortune though...

c\_/ cheers
Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: kendall
Date: 29 May 12 - 04:02 PM

I'd like to meet the prick who did this.
I did change my password immediately.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 May 12 - 05:09 PM

I lost my Yahoo account a few years back with all the addresses, etc. Since then, I ask people NOT to put me on group mailing lists. If that does happen, I simply dump them into trash and flush. Usually unread. I then write a letter to that person asking that they either

1) remove my name from the list or

2) stop mailing stuff to me, period

I do not open any e-mail I have doubts about, and certainly I never open links inside those e-mail.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 29 May 12 - 05:38 PM

And, I hope all have caught on (I was slow to this) to deleting all the senders' details and forwarding with the BCC only when forwarding email. We are all in this together. United we email, divided we get hacked.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 12 - 06:54 PM

I answered earlier but evidently it didn't take.

Along with changing your password, you should run a scan. I use the free version of Malwarebytes. Download and update then run this every week or so. I'd run a full scan the first time, a quick one after that.

You can tell often if an address is real or spoofed. Mouse over any links in the message and look at the bottom left of your browser screen - you'll see what the actual address is, despite what the code says in the message.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:47 PM

And tell your ISP.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 30 May 12 - 03:55 AM

And tell your ISP.
Not Relevant if your address is being spoofed.

Spoofed emails have been sent using my address and friends and colleagues have had their addresses spoofed. In no case that I saw did the messages come from the supposed senders' machine.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 May 12 - 03:32 PM

I had one like that - I was getting shit that allegedly came from a North London firm I was in a BITTER piece of litigation with (I lost but also sort of won in that when I could not force the other side to reveal the notes I knew they had of some meetings with a dead person my client agreed to pay theirs a lot of money - and then went bust so they never got their money) and another firm in the West Country was also getting shit and I and the West Country firm's pointy-head went over the full headers - and eventually we found a little "licensed conveyancer" also in North London. He had a virus. It was sending messages and spoofing the sender field from all the incoming emails he had ever had - and the firm in North London had at one stage mistakenly sent an email to him with my address also on.

I thin the West Country firm's pointy-head helped the conveyancer get rid of the virus.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 May 12 - 05:36 PM

Regarding the advice to notify your ISP:

I know someone this happened to. When she notified her ISP, they immediately closed her account so that she could not even access it herself. As a result, she lost her entire contact list as well as her archived emails. She had to reconstruct her contact list from scratch, which was tedious, and of course she forgot some people altogether, so she couldn't send them a follow-up email telling them to ignore the previous email sent by the hacker.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: kendall
Date: 31 May 12 - 01:22 AM

So far, those who have contacted me know what happened and how to deal with it.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 05:30 PM

My email has just been hacked too. I called my SUPERgeek nephew. He says it's a spam attack that has been on the go for weeks, it's innocuous and will be cleaned up. No viruses expected. It will take a while but no need to worry. Just delete them and wait.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 05:39 PM

I use Mozilla's Thunderbird so all of my messages are downloaded into the computer into one program that manages several different email addresses. My contact list is in the computer but also in the online site of the account. If one of the actual accounts was closed I still have the emails I want to keep and my contact list. I can work with my email offline if I need, etc. It's a good backup.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 06:28 PM

Right, Gnu -- just got a suspicious email from you.

Since you certainly are not known for sending emails suggesting I "check this out", I deleted it. Figured that's what had happened. Then found this thread, so I know YOU know about it.

No prob...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 07:27 PM

I've changed my password twice but I still get this crap.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 07:42 PM

I got one from you, too, gnu, but since a) you never put "hey" in the subject and b) you never tell me to "check it out", I figured it was spam.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 07:49 PM

Sounds like a bot harvested the account addresses and there is nothing to do until it winds down or another court case nails one of the giants of Internet spam mail and they have to stop. Happens about once every five years.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 08:42 PM

I just got two copies of the same message from gnu, but they were addressed to other people. Being a gentleman I deleted them. Gentlemen don't read other people's mail, unless it's really, really spicy stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 08:58 PM

I donno, Capt'n... With all the lady's hearts you've broken it might not be a "son" of a bitch???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 11:31 AM

I have changed my password and I am running a new virus scan and then a malware scan as advised by my service provider.

I am now receiving email from people I don't know. I am going to go through my contact list next and delete a bunch of them.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 06:27 AM

Scans found nothing. Started to delete old/unknown contacts but Rogers (ISP) has made this beyond tedious. I became totally frustrated after ten mintes.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 02:41 PM

I too deleted an "odd" (or at least odder than usual) email from you, gnu.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: GUEST,Max Reiner
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 03:11 PM

Lots of reasons for not joining any organization via the web.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 03:55 PM

Soooo... Max Reiner... what org did Kendall join that caused these problems?

Our newspaper today says the US SS and the RCMP are investigating Romney's email being hacked HERE in Moncton! If I suddenl

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 09:44 PM

I'll finish that for my friend:

Our newspaper today says the US SS and the RCMP are investigating Romney's email being hacked HERE in Moncton! If I suddenlY DISAPPEAR, TELL LAURA I LOVE HER.

Subject: RE: BS: hacked email
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 04:46 AM

Soooo... Max Reiner... what org did Kendall join that caused these problems?
I haven't seen any evidence in this thread that the problem was anything to do with Kendall's PC or email account.

Email addresses are harvested from the mailboxes of virus infected PCs. The addresses are fed into a botnet and the spam sent from a totally different location. The addresses could have come from anybody with whom Kendall has exchanged emails.

By far the most unlikely scenario is for the email account itself to have been hacked.