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PrincelySpiritofAnime88
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:46 pm    Post subject: Help! I'm scared! Reply with quote

I recently got an e-mail from what claims to be from "An educational site" that says "Your email address was used to join this site on September 29th or 26th 2006". I NEVER JOINED THAT SITE. I FEAR MY E-MAIL ADDRESS COULD BE HACKED BY THIS MAIL! So If you see a hacker immitating me and doing bad stuff with my account, INFORM ME AT ONCE. I'M SCARED. TO INFORM ME, SEND MAIL TO Bionicleis2cool117@YAHOO.COM.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's probably just spam, or someone used your email address to register at that website. Remember that they don't need to be able to access your mail in order to use it to register somewhere. Change your passwords, to a spyware/adware sweet, and you should be fine.
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PrincelySpiritofAnime88
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I really am hacked, inform me by sending mail to greathero8@yahoo.com.
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Sora121
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I seriously doubt that you've been hacked. Most email clients are very hard to hack in the first place. Multiple ID recognition points upon accessing the account. There are very few people willing to deal with too much of that.

More than likely, Some one simply mistyped there email address and it sent the email to you instead. It's happened to most of us. The web is a very very large thing, so the possibilities are near endless.

If, you really think your address has been hacked, Just change the passwords and so forth. Or if your email provider doesn't allow password changes just make another account and switch all the incoming email into that new account.
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cstdenis
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote]Most email clients are very hard to hack in the first place.[/quote]
Unfortunately most people use Outlook or Outlook express which are easy to hack.

But like most people here already said, its probebly just spam...or maybe phishing.
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