I'm not stuck in Greece .. help with Spam please

[Micky]

Getting numerous phone calls, emails and text messages from people in my contacts. By all accounts I'm stuck in Greece and had my bag stolen.

Anyone that know me knows I don't have a bag

I've changed my Yahoo email password and security questions but is there anything else I can do?

I'm not a computer whizz so keep it simple?

Calling Cookie

Help ....

Micky

 

[Roberto]

Micky,

It hasn't happened to me touch wood but looking around there's some interesting info here encouraging you to change the secret questions on the account, which makes sense.

http://ask-leo.com/is_changing_my_password_enough.html

Rob

 

[hatzyian]

Miky,

from what I saw you are actually stuck in Limassol, Cyprus (definatly not part of Greece)

Pop down and say Hi

 

[Blackal]

You rotten bastard...........

Did you ever think of sending a feckin' postcard?

NO! You feckin'd did not!

Al

 

[Greg Masters]

Is it a man bag you had stolen?

What colour was it?

 

[Micky]

Micky,

It hasn't happened to me touch wood but looking around there's some interesting info here encouraging you to change the secret questions on the account, which makes sense.

http://ask-leo.com/is_changing_my_password_enough.html

Rob

Cheers Rob

getting 'phone calls, emails, texts and messages from all over the world about this

Changed my password and my security questions, but that article is very interesting, thanks

Been suggested that you create a new contact, say AAAA so that it goes to the very top of your contact list, and fix it with a fictitious email so that it blocks sending spam like this to all your contacts. Dunno if that works or not, any ideas welcome of course.

Yeah ... it's a man bag

 

[harry the cat]

Email addresses

This bit of advice from Roberto's link might be relevant to you:

'Email address or alternate email address.
Many if not most online accounts require your email address. In the case of an email account (like Hotmail, Gmail or the link) there's often an "alternate" email address. Systems often provide the ability to send a password reset message to that email address of record should you lose your password. Since only you could have set it up, by definition that email address should be yours.
Once your account has been compromised, a smart hacker will immediately go in and change that email address to one that he has access to. That way, if you request a password reset, he'll get it, not you. Similarly, if you change the password, all the hacker has to do is request a password reset, and he'll regain access to the account.
What you should do: once you've regained access to your account, immediately verify that all email addresses associated with that account are yours. If they aren't change them right away'.

The address that the email to your circulation list came from is similar but not the same as yours i.e: dadakargs instead of dakargs.

 

[Micky]

This bit of advice from Roberto's link might be relevant to you:

The address that the email to your circulation list came from is similar but not the same as yours i.e: dadakargs instead of dakargs.

Yes indeed Tony the email shown above is dadakargs with 'da' in front of the proper one. Also used is dakargss with another 's' added at the end

Checked my bank account ... was concerned that £76.00 had been removed, so I frantically contacted the bank, took some time of course, pressing numbers, options. All the while thinking that surely 'they' would take out more than a mere seventy-six quid. Eventually got through and actually spoke to a person. After more security checks .... I had taxed the Xcountry last night on line

 

[cookie]

i suspect that the biz of getting friends to send money to their account is extent of the scam. they may have scoured your emails for passwords etc. but i doubt it. anyway, your bank details would not be in an email, surely?

you've changed the password. only other thing you could do is create a new account, maybe not with a free provider? having said that, i've never had trouble with google mail.

 

[Micky]

i suspect that the biz of getting friends to send money to their account is extent of the scam. they may have scoured your emails for passwords etc. but i doubt it. anyway, your bank details would not be in an email, surely?

you've changed the password. only other thing you could do is create a new account, maybe not with a free provider? having said that, i've never had trouble with google mail.

Cheers Cookie

All my contacts in my Yahoo Mail have gone ... no real problem, I have them on my phone still and can bring them in as I want.

Any easy way to get them back from Yahoo?

I've been told that if you create a contact say ... 'AAA' and give it a fictitious email address, it will of course go to the very first position in your contacts and feck up anyone wanting to send spam out to your contacts ... is this so?

Thanks again