HACKED BEWARE

[Mustang702000]

Good evening friends,I have been hacked on my hotmail and yahoo accounts,and my contacts have been getting bogus requests for amazon gift cards and other bs.I been on phone since 2pm with old friends and family getting this sorted out,and tryiny to shutdown hotmail and changing other passwords.
Gotta be a special spot in hell for such aholes,
Anyway,please accept my apologies for any inconvienience.
Best regards, Dave and Frosty

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[Rapid Red]

Good evening friends,I have been hacked on my hotmail and yahoo accounts,and my contacts have been getting bogus requests for amazon gift cards and other bs.I been on phone since 2pm with old friends and family getting this sorted out,and tryiny to shutdown hotmail and changing other passwords.
Gotta be a special spot in hell for such aholes,
Anyway,please accept my apologies for any inconvienience.
Best regards, Dave and Frosty

With hotmail & yahoo you're suprised?

 

[Ock]

lol what did u click...

 

[Mustang702000]

Yahoo been sending me messages for several months about new outfit taking them over and going to shutdown my account yesterday if I didnt click on "See what is needed" or some such crap.
Well, this morning,on the phone,I tried to cliclk on it a nothing happened.Then about 2pm the calls from friends in Georgia and elsewhere started rolling in and I did get the joy of talking to dear friends for a while.
Guess I had a senior moment.

No, I am not really surprised. Thanks.

 

[Ock]

Yahoo been sending me messages for several months about new outfit taking them over and going to shutdown my account yesterday if I didnt click on "See what is needed" or some such crap.
Well, this morning,on the phone,I tried to cliclk on it a nothing happened.Then about 2pm the calls from friends in Georgia and elsewhere started rolling in and I did get the joy of talking to dear friends for a while.
Guess I had a senior moment.

No, I am not really surprised. Thanks.

happens to best of us... i just reformatted my dads laptop.. he got click happy...

 

[Cobra Jet]

So I’m not sure if this applies to Android mobile devices or not, but with Apple mobile devices - when you go into your email accounts to view the emails:
- open email
- at very top, tap twice on just the email SENDER line
- it will open the contact window and there you can see the complete email address used by the Sender (NOT the initial “alias” name that you normally see first).

You can instantly tell at that point if the email sender is bogus… especially if some shithead is trying to spoof a Company, Corporation, or other well known email addresses. At that point you can then block the Sender and just delete the email.

NEVER click on ANY links within an email UNTIL you can verify the Sender…

Watch out too, because these shitheads are sending PDF attachments, attachments that look like photos, word docs, excel files, zip files, etc…. Never, ever click a link or try to open an attachment if you have not verified the Sender first.

There’s also a new scam going where the Sender is showing as “Microsoft Partner” and the email content looks like it was sent directly from MS, however if you saw the real email address behind the Sender “Microsoft Partner”, you’d know right away it’s a damn bogus phishing scam…. Do NOT click on anything in those emails.

 

[arigr]

So I’m not sure if this applies to Android mobile devices or not, but with Apple mobile devices - when you go into your email accounts to view the emails:
- open email
- at very top, tap twice on just the email SENDER line
- it will open the contact window and there you can see the complete email address used by the Sender (NOT the initial “alias” name that you normally see first).

You can instantly tell at that point if the email sender is bogus… especially if some shithead is trying to spoof a Company, Corporation, or other well known email addresses. At that point you can then block the Sender and just delete the email.

NEVER click on ANY links within an email UNTIL you can verify the Sender…

Watch out too, because these shitheads are sending PDF attachments, attachments that look like photos, word docs, excel files, zip files, etc…. Never, ever click a link or try to open an attachment if you have not verified the Sender first.

There’s also a new scam going where the Sender is showing as “Microsoft Partner” and the email content looks like it was sent directly from MS, however if you saw the real email address behind the Sender “Microsoft Partner”, you’d know right away it’s a damn bogus phishing scam…. Do NOT click on anything in those emails.

right there with you on this one... crazy enough,there are emails that you only have to open to get whacked,without clicking anything in the email... if you're working on your pc browser you can just mouseover the sender's address to get a more detailed view... "Watch out too, because these shitheads are sending PDF attachments, attachments that look like photos, word docs, excel files, zip files, etc…. Never, ever click a link or try to open an attachment if you have not verified the Sender first." Now it's been said twice

 

[Biggus Dickus]

As a general rule of thumb, I am very cautious except when this guy emails me:

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