Email account hacked (1 Viewer)

[The General]

Weirdness with my email account I use mostly for spam. I have it linked to a bunch of different places, pretty much anytime I have to give an email address that I don't care about.

Was at a casino recently and inserted the players card thing they have to check my balance and saw the email account linked to it was some messed up name. Didn't think much of it until today when I was calling a place that had contacted me about High School reunion stuff and they had this same messed up name email attached to me. Two extremely random businesses having this email for me seems bad.

Changed the password to that account.

What else do I need to do? Talk to me.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

what email service? If it's gmail, go immediately and set up two-step verification for your login settings. That will require a code texted to your phone before it will let you log in from any unrecognized (and previously verified by you) device.

 

[The General]

what email service? If it's gmail, go immediately and set up two-step verification for your login settings. That will require a code texted to your phone before it will let you log in from any unrecognized (and previously verified by you) device.

It's yahoo. I think they have that option, I'll take a look.

 

[SacramentoBob]

How do we know this is really you?

 

[The General]

How do we know this is really you?

Damnit you are good.

I so want to post the email address of the person who took over my account but figure I shouldn't poke the bear until I know what they are doing.

I really don't even know what to check or where to begin looking. This is going to big the crap out of me for at least a couple of hours until I forget and move onto watching TV.

 

[dfsguy]

Weirdness with my email account I use mostly for spam. I have it linked to a bunch of different places, pretty much anytime I have to give an email address that I don't care about.

Was at a casino recently and inserted the players card thing they have to check my balance and saw the email account linked to it was some messed up name. Didn't think much of it until today when I was calling a place that had contacted me about High School reunion stuff and they had this same messed up name email attached to me. Two extremely random businesses having this email for me seems bad.

Changed the password to that account.

What else do I need to do? Talk to me.

Did you call the cyber police? You need to make sure consequences will never be the same.

 

[The General]

Did you call the cyber police?

Thought that's what I was doing in here, Chief.

 

[tonydead]

I don't understand the question.  If it's an email that you set up to use primarily for spam you shouldn't have anything to worry about since that's what you've set it up for and have been using it for.  You said you give it out for things you don't care about, why do you care all of a sudden?

 

[Bucky86]

Do you need any money? Post your bank account details and we'll help you out.

 

[The General]

I don't understand the question.  If it's an email that you set up to use primarily for spam you shouldn't have anything to worry about since that's what you've set it up for and have been using it for.  You said you give it out for things you don't care about, why do you care all of a sudden?

It's weird because 2 different businesses completely unrelated had some different email I have never heard of linked to my name.

I'll try to explain better. This casino had my junk email account linked to a players card thing that you use there - Let's say it was "thegeneral@yahoo.com". I was visiting the casino and checked my players card balance and noticed it was now linked to "somerandomdudes@yahoo.com" a random email I had never heard of. Changed the account to my correct email, the one I have set up for spam, and went back to drinking and losing money.

Didn't think anything of it until today I was talking to a random business trying to sell me something and they said we have "somerandomdudes@yahoo.com" listed as your email contact - the same random email that the casino had. I have no idea how this business got that info.

Make sense?

 

[The General]

Do you need any money? Post your bank account details and we'll help you out.

I only fell for that the first few times.

 

[GregR]

Probably won't help, but I'd check your sent folder and see if there are outgoing emails to these places notifying them your email was changing. Though I'd expect if someone went to the trouble to do this they'd think to delete them or do it in a way they wouldn't show up there.

Barring that, I'd probably go through your email history on the account and identify anything important enough that you were using with it that definitely you don't want correspondence going to this guy.

You could also report it to yahoo. I don't know if they will shut down this other email account, but if they did it could prevent them from getting any information about you from having switched things over.

 

[jon_mx]

You need to pull your credit report and see if there is any activity on it that is not yours.  Even though this is a junk email account there is probably enough info at these places you used this account he could log into pull the information and try to establish credit.  You may even want to get a monitoring service that looks for strange activity.  I would guess a ton of personal information was compromised and this dude is already looking to take advantage. 

 

[tonydead]

You need to pull your credit report and see if there is any activity on it that is not yours.  Even though this is a junk email account there is probably enough info at these places you used this account he could log into pull the information and try to establish credit.  You may even want to get a monitoring service that looks for strange activity.  I would guess a ton of personal information was compromised and this dude is already looking to take advantage. 

 

[tonydead]

It's weird because 2 different businesses completely unrelated had some different email I have never heard of linked to my name.

I'll try to explain better. This casino had my junk email account linked to a players card thing that you use there - Let's say it was "thegeneral@yahoo.com". I was visiting the casino and checked my players card balance and noticed it was now linked to "somerandomdudes@yahoo.com" a random email I had never heard of. Changed the account to my correct email, the one I have set up for spam, and went back to drinking and losing money.

Didn't think anything of it until today I was talking to a random business trying to sell me something and they said we have "somerandomdudes@yahoo.com" listed as your email contact - the same random email that the casino had. I have no idea how this business got that info.

Make sense?

Businesses like this, casinos, etc. that have reasons to market someone and sent junk email like you've described and admitted this email account was for sell peoples contact info all the time.  It got cross contaminated somewhere with the wrong email before it was sold, and will probably be sold again.  I doubt anyone is even in your real email.  Just change the password just in case and forget about it.  

 

[eoMMan]

When are your nudes unleashed? 

 

[The General]

When are your nudes unleashed? 

You won't be disappointed - like a baby's arm holding an apple.

 

[jon_mx]

Businesses like this, casinos, etc. that have reasons to market someone and sent junk email like you've described and admitted this email account was for sell peoples contact info all the time.  It got cross contaminated somewhere with the wrong email before it was sold, and will probably be sold again.  I doubt anyone is even in your real email.  Just change the password just in case and forget about it.