Stolen id - on messenger!

OMG !!! What a horrible thing to happen, its not bad enough that they stole your id but to take the time to go and write nasty things to friends...stumps me. I cant imagine how you must feel. Luckly no it hasnt happen to me and I dont want it too. (x fingers).

It has never happened to me but it sounds like it can create a big mess! I often why people who are intelligent enough to figure stuff out like that don't use their brains to do something good with it....instead they steal things, create viruses...etc. Go figure. Hope you got it all sorted out!

No Sweetie it has never happened to me yet As I said to you this morning because I stay on invisible I never got it but I would have phoned you as soon as I would have done as I know it is not you I kept seeing you log in and out but I did not go on visible because I know that sometimes your other half is on there. That was yesterday morning, I was only on because I was waiting for my Mum to come on I do hope you have got it sorted and that it does not happen again

Why would someone want to do that... it is crazy. I'm glad your friends know you well enough for this to have not gotten too out of hand. I have not had this happen to me, but then, I don't use my messenger very much. It should be easy to catch these people, I hope they do.

Oh mummymo for you of all people to have that happen to! That is messed up! I would know if someone like that were pretending to be you. I am glad they figured it out right away and let you know. There are some sad, small little buggers out there, aren't there?! Someone tried to get my tax information recently. I received a letter in the mail saying they wouldn't send me my information because they couldn't identify me by mail. I hadn't requested any information, and didn't know anything about it. When I called them up theu had no record of the request and weren't able to enlighten me beyond they had received a request and sent out a form letter. I'd sure like to know who did that and why!

It has never happened to me. But I know of people who has been hacked, not only on MSN, but also Orkut. There are several things that could lead your account to be hacked. Maybe you visited a friend/public comptuer and forgot the MSN open. Did you visit any Lan House lately? Also, your computer may have KeyLoggers: why don't you scan it? Did someone send you any strange files? Those things could have happened, you know? Those are only some of the things that could have happened.

I don't use any messengers so I don't have that problem. Stealing your identity like that is really sick, and it seems strange that they managed to get your password and log in as you. I think that most of your friends would realise that it wasn't you contacting them, even if your Irn Bru can turn you a bit wicked (but not unpleasant) sometimes.

thankfully this has never happened to me, (knock on wood) I cannot believe that this happened. Why would someone want to do that? I hope none of your friends are mad at you..I do not know why people do such things...I am sorry you had to deal with this and I hope you can fix it!=)

That is terrible!!! I've never had that happen on Messenger as I keep updating it and am very careful to keep my computer hacker free (not always easy). Glad you got everything sorted out mummymo! xxx

Yes that never happened to me too!! But it is not impossible and not strange too. Still it is nice to know that it actually happened and I would be careful about this in future. I use messenger almost all the time. This is really really aweful. Did you send some report to messenger adminstration or somewhere? May be thats good to let them know the thing.

Of course it's very disrespectful. Do you know anyone who has a reason to harm you and put your friends against you? Someone who is jealous of you maybe? Well, it might have been done by someone who doesn't even know you though. One thing that I never do is letting my password saved on the computer. It's much easier for it to be stolen this way. There are a few programs who keep track of the internet traffic, and it's not difficult at all to find passwords saved on the computer though them (I did it myself and found out my own password that I forgot once). If you share the internet network with more people (like people from the same building, for example) it might be easier for them to find out things too. I have a friend who accidentally got MSN messages from his neighbor while making some tests at home. There are also a few keylogger programs, which keep track of everything you type, including IDs and passwords. So, be careful, someone might be watching you.

Several years ago, Yahoo shut down my account for no apparent reason. But, I've always suspected that someone hacked my username and then sent emails or rude chat messages to my friends list. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again. It's hard not leaving bread crumbs to follow all over the Internet. Just best not to use real names online, so someone will have harder time tracing you. I hope it works out for you, and that everyone understands it wasn't your fault. Those things do happen. We just feel it worse when it happens to us.

dude really sad to hear what hapnd to u. It hasent hapnd to me the way u have mentioned. But a friend of mine had somehow hacked my password and had started harmless threats ..ki i know whom u chat with etc. I'll start acting weirdly with them. Especially the girl u like blah blah. I asked him why is he doing this ??? and he had no answer for that. Its strange sometimes how ppl end up doing wrong things..with no reasons whatsoever.Thankfully nothing bad hapnd to me as he was my friend and he just let me change the password...and now he doesnt know what it is lol

Sad.to read your story of identity theft.really now i am getting worried to use messenger ...thinking at any day it might be my turn ..Thank God you have overcome the challenge successfully. But I cant understand if anyone can do this to someone whom he/she does not know so easily than whats the security of transaction that taken place online..in various online programs .There is a possibility that if you use the messenger id in internet cafe or anywhere in public place..than it might be someone around you who saw your id and password and stole the id . Anyway all will be alert now finding your instance. Thanks Mummymo to alert us showing your example. God bless you.

whenever someone got nasty or swore sweetheart your friends would have known it wasn't you , Just as well though or you could have lost some good friends , I will never understand people doing things like that , I couldn't listen to someone else's phone conversation let alone pretend I was them , take care pal xx

That was a terrible ordeal my friend, as if you haven't got enough on your plate as it is, what with Niamh. You feel totally violated and that someone has robbed you, I went through the same thing with my phone, now some shite has got hold of all my personal details, my prized photos, texts and phone numbers and I can tell you I felt sick, the emotions are anger, hurt and frustration. Takes a while to get over it and another slice of trust has been lost to people. Here's a hug, it always happens to the lovely people in this world x

Oh dear, why did this have to happen to you. I don´t understand why people do this, I guess they get their adrenaline going by steeling someone´s privacy. It´s never happened to me, because no one in the house uses Messenger, precisely because there are so many problems, like viruses for example, which is the one I´m most concerned about. I know Messenger is a good and convenient way to communicate but I just don´t trust it. Whenever one of us needs it we go to a Cybercafé. Luckily there are quite a few within walking distance. Having your identity stolen must be a very upsetting experience. Sorry you have to deal with yet another problem. Hugs Dana

Well sis, I'm sorry i did that I couldn't help myself lol. You know how us older sissies are. I guess some people just like to cause problems for others. they get a kick out of it. I'm glad its all sorted out now though

i didnt have similar experience as that my but aunt had the same experience...she is using a different ID before..then all of a sudden she cant log in to her yahoo account anymore..but since she is not that good on the internet...she went ahead and created a new one...since her old email account is still on our list of contacts, there are times that we see the OLD id ONLINE! but we send a msg, its not replying, then goes offline all of a sudden...its always been like that...then we PM the user to how he is, but didnt get any reply..there are even times that she online until now, but we stil didnt who the user is.

I don't think that someone have stoled my id on messenger because I change my password at lest every month, I don't know how often this happen to you but if it is happen very often your computer would be infected with a keylogger, it can record every that you type in your computer and send the info to a mail so you should to get a good antispyware. I think maybe you don't have a strong password with letters and number and special characters remember write the password in a book or something it is more safe that save the password in a file in the computer. if the person that stoled your id send a email to your contact you can figure out where is he, checking the sender ip, it work fine on hotmail.