MadCowDisease Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 just lost my email account. yahoo is a pain to get a hold of customer service btw.. this is what happened. im selling something online, have a link to my email to answer questions. i get an email saying the person is interested and to send an email to this other account (said that one was a work email). so i did, and my account got hacked. instantly. so i warn you all, if you get something like that.. do not send an email to the other account.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talcian Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Did you have a weak password by any chance? Always good to use upper, lower, numbers and special characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emp_newb Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 w0rdpazz is the best password ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Mind if I ask if you clicked on a link in the E-Mail? I don't think it is possible to steal an E-Mail account by just sending an E-Mail to an address and by this I mean actually sending with the compose mail button and copy and pasting the address to the to box instead of clicking on an E-Mail link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadCowDisease Posted April 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 that was were i failed hard. i clicked the email in the message. EDIT: also, i use really complex passwords. so it wasn't that. also, it was instant. it wasnt like, oh, 5-6 seconds. no. instant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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