View Full Version : Someone hacked my email account..Help?
Seymour222
08-03-2008, 09:13 PM
Someone hacked my email account and I cannot login. This account is a contact account for some of my banking and bill pay. Whoever, whatever hacked my account sent out emails to all of my contacts saying that I was stranded in West Africa without wallet, money, passport, etc. and to send 2000.00 to help me return home. Weird, huh? I guess my real question is:
Will reporting this issue actually resolve anything? (As I have already done)
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Can they get money out of my actual banking accounts?
I keep a rather complicated passwords for these accounts, is this email now useless?
Zodiac
08-03-2008, 09:14 PM
your probably getting keylogged. scan your computer.
Seymour222
08-03-2008, 09:16 PM
Wouldn't someone have had to install a program on my computer for that?
Infinite
08-03-2008, 09:18 PM
it's because you drive a slow, always broken s2k LOL
Seymour222
08-03-2008, 09:58 PM
it's because you drive a slow, always broken s2k LOL
Eww that was nasty. Ive been having a lot of fun in the teggy though.
Zodiac
08-03-2008, 10:01 PM
Wouldn't someone have had to install a program on my computer for that?
they can do it in many ways:
keylogger can be installed when a user opens a file attached to an email
a keylogger can be installed when a file is launched from an open-access directory on a P2P network
a keylogger can be installed via a web page script which exploits a browser vulnerability. The program will automatically be launched when a user visits a infected site;
a keylogger can be installed by another malicious program already present on the victim machine, if the program is capable of downloading and installing other malware to the system.
wantboost
08-03-2008, 10:04 PM
Wouldn't someone have had to install a program on my computer for that?
no there are hardware key loggers that unless you looked for them you wouldnt know.
http://www.keyghost.com/ general idea.....
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