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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-10 11:17 AM
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Hey guys/gals...My brother just called me to inform me that my
e-mail has apparently been hacked into. He received 2 e-mails asking for money for a trip back to England. I'm going to download malewarebytes after I run my Comodo virus scan, but my question at the moment is, is there any way I can track this back to the hacker fix this somehow?

Thanks!

Ras
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-10 12:34 PM
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1. You can't say for sure
that your personal email has been hacked. It's more likely that someone with your address in their email address book has collected a mass-mailing worm and your brother has received an email that looks as though it's come from you but hasn't.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-10 01:24 PM
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2. Aha...
the other thing is, when I went to my e-mail, it was being Forwarded, I can tell some stuff was missing that I didn't delete. I went to Custom and clicked "don't forward".

I tried to change my password, but could not remember my "secret" questions answer...:eyes:
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