Hijacked Hotmail?

[ADF]

Like a lot of people, I use my hotmail account for registering for various things so I don't receive a bunch of junk email in my "regular" account. Over the past couple of days, however, I noticed a bunch of "return to sender" emails appearing in my inbox. The thing is that I never sent any emails to any of these people. Here's the content of the email that's being sent to various people...



Geoff,
My name is Candy and just got my first webcam...woohoo.yyaa
Im looking to meet some new men and have some excitement, will
you come playwith me?
If you must know, I'm 4" 10' hard figure and have a great set ofboob,
wanna see me tonight

Candy

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please cancel these notesforever.
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Now, it's pretty clear that my email has been hacked somehow and is being used for illicit purposes. The first thing I did was change my password to some random thing with numbers, letters, and characters. Will this be enough or am I totally screwed and have to get a new email account? It'd be a little bit of a hassle, but not the end of the world. What do <i>you</i> think?


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[furie]

outside of changing your email, which is what I did recently, I have no solution.

I did have a question for the board: What is the purpose of the random words found in spam?


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[Arienette]

why don't you just admit that you're candy already? no one's buying the whole email hijacking crap. really.

a few years ago, something similar happened with my aol account at the time. this person who got into my account started having im conversations with people i knew (some of whom be reading this right now), and saying horrible things to them as me. i tried the password change, but to no avail. i tried getting in touch with the aol people to see if they might be able to help me, but they never wrote back. so, in the end, i just got a new aol account, and turned my back on that one forever. what a huge pain in the ass.

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[Hottub]

I did have a question for the board: What is the purpose of the random words found in spam?


Random words, random letterscczxsd and spelling DiFeReNcEs can sometimes throw off a spam filter.

Interestingly, I sent an important work related e-mail to one of my clients, and it got deleted by a spam filter.
The reason?....



His name is Dick!

True story.

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This message was edited by Hottub on 3-3-04 @ 5:25 PM

[SatCam]

His name is Dick!

Sure, sure.

"Hi Richy, wanna go back to my place after work today? I've been looking for that special someone to spend the rest of my life with. By the way, I'm wearing a pink thong."

THAT'S why the SPAM filter removed it.

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[reeshy]

Hi Richy, wanna go back to my place after work today? I've been looking for that special someone to spend the rest of my life with. By the way, I'm wearing a pink thong."


So, who is this guy "Richie", SatCam????????

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[Hottub]

By the way, I'm wearing a pink thong."


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[JustJon]

ADF, addressing the hotmail: someone is sending spam, but doesn't want the bounces/hate mail, so they put a fake return address. yours. nothing you can do about it but delete any responses or bounces.

As for aol, if they're ignoring you, call them on the phone and complain. You're paying for their service, make sure they deliver it. If they ignore your email, call, fax and write them.

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[Zipgun]

I got the same exact email. I get a lot of those actually where it's basically just porn spam, but then there's just all sorts of words run together without any meaning and it's usually from a sender with a weird name like "Philosophised V. Deliciously" or "Moustache Q. Constellation"

And I'll say this...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these spam emails that have nonsense in them are some sort of Al Qaeda code. I even saw the word "Jihad" among all the other non-sequitor phrases in one of these emails.


That's my "Internet Psychic" call.

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