★Email hackers are on the prowl again★
★Email hackers are on the prowl again★
I had one client this week get taken by the hackers and I received another email from someone questioning it. I did some research and found many folks on the internet having this same hack happen to them.
Change your internet email account password and here is why…
Please read this information
* Hackers are logging into your email accounts, sending spam to your contacts and then changing your password.
* These emails usually include a message about “you” being out of the country and losing your wallet and needing money sent to get you back to the US.
* They are wrote in choppy English, but it’s still wrote in a manner that appears personal.
* You are not notified until one of your contacts tells you about it
* You may or may not be able to log in and see the emails being sent as your password has been changed.
* You will have to notify hotmail, yahoo or gmail about the hack to get your account repaired so you can log in again.
* If you do not pass their account credentials to get it repaired, you will have to create a new account and start over and lose all of your contacts and personal information you have in the email folders/lists, etc. This is sometimes your bread and butter! I know many small business folks who are using hotmail for business and think of all the client information you keep on hotmail’s servers. Change your password today to a unique password for email only.
★What Happened and how to prevent it★
Someone got into your account. How did they do this? Do you recall a time lately when you had to fill in a web form or another website to create an account and possibly had to fill in a password? I’ll bet it’s the same password for your email. This is very common! Everyone uses one password for email, Myspace, Facebook, YOUR BANKING, etc…
The hackers are either getting access to those web form databases and/or are using fake forms to get your information and are by luck, gaining access to the account by the information those that gave them: the email and a password.
This is why you should change your email account password to something VERY unique and do not use it for any other sites on the net. I also recommend you back up your contacts asap…just in case. If you need help with this, feel free to Call That Girl for a phone support call and I can help you with this.
~Lisa
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Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Call That Girl. She is an Outlook Expert and Microsoft 365 Consultant.Subscribe
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