Crap! My Email Has Been Hacked AGAIN!
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
March 22, 2010 4:51am CST
After only a week or so after my email address was hacked into, it's been hacked into again! And before you say it.....I DO have computer protection means.....the anti-virus scans malware, spyware scans,...blah, blah, blah......so don't accuse me that I haven't been protected even though having a Mac computer and don't have the same concerns PC users have. And before you say it YES YES YES I've changed my password, so obviously that's NOT helping. It is more that my email has been picked up again and nothing to do with my password.....since NONE of my other accounts have been affected. So what the hell is going on????? Many MORE of my friends are complaining about this no matter WHAT email type they are using...Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, etc. The only reason I found out I was checking my email just now before going to bed and found those MAILER-DAEMON things.....and here is a copy of the message:
Dear sir/Madame,
It is our honor to introduce our company to you.
We're an export company specilized in many brand new electronics.
We offer you the best price and quality, prompt delivery and satisfactory
after-sale services.Pls feel free to contact us if you are interested in
any of our items.
web:www.wsswcp.com
MSN: wsswcp-01@hotmail.com
E-mail: wsswcp@188.com
SO PLEASE...YOU WHO ARE MY FRIENDS KNOW I'M A WRITER------would I spell specilized like that?
Also being on disability benefits would I suggest buying at any company..let alone "our company"--since when do I have a company???--JUST NOT like me to promote anything.
So once again....what the hell is going on????????? Any clues??????? This is getting ridiculous
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25 responses
@titaniumpen (676)
• Hong Kong
22 Mar 10
Oh sorry, I think I misunderstood you. So somebody hacked into your account and used it for spamming purposes?
Okay, first thing I'll do, fire up task manager, check if you've got something like "key logger" or something like that. I use key loggers and I know some free key loggers which will show up in the task manager. If you can't see one, run a virus scan. You don't know what will show up.
Try this, if it doesn't work, I have a secret weapon which will sort of reveal the stupid hacker (might be your dog).
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Mar 10
Does this work for Mac computers though? I can't use anything PC related
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@titaniumpen (676)
• Hong Kong
22 Mar 10
Check your Activity Monitor. It's basically the same as Task Manager for Windows.
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@titaniumpen (676)
• Hong Kong
22 Mar 10
It's useful to track what your kids are doing to your computer. :)
Well, if somebody are using some kind of uber-cyber method, sorry, I don't any of us can help you. Valkerion, what suggestion do you have?
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
22 Mar 10
I did receive one exactly the same as you send here few minutes ago. I knew your email once again being targeted by these hackers. I don't know how they managed to penetrate your email addy since you have changed your password etc....I am just as surprised as anyone here. These hackers are terrorizing others emails and it is no longer safe when these cyberworld terrorists began their attacks. I really have no clues at all but I think you need to cancel your account and open a new account with different username.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Mar 10
The real problem is that my email is a PAID account..I opted this to have more storage....I have scores of "folders" with a lot of vital info stored...it would take me a year and a day to literally transfer that info somewhere else since I've had this email addy long before I even had my own computer, so figure about seven years-it's also connected and linked with my DSL service--I only recently celebrated an issue with my DSL service which overcharged me.....they are royal pains in the azz to deal with.......to change anything could jeopardize a lot and make things worse
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@BarBaraPrz (47611)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Mar 10
The cats wouldn't do that to her... they know who butters their tuna.
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@titaniumpen (676)
• Hong Kong
22 Mar 10
It's probable that someone in your household or your school or whatever has installed a keylogger. That's why even if you change your password they can easily know your new one.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
22 Mar 10
I wonder if there is a website that you are a part of, that may be part to this. It is crazy that you have to keep going through this. I hope it stops soon.
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@recycledgoth (9894)
•
22 Mar 10
I wish I could offer you some help hun, but I haven't a clue how they are getting into your email. All I can think of is reporting the ISP to your mailing company and see if they can back track from there
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
I've actually have bactracked the ISP address of the "spoofed" emails...they originate in China
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@PurpleTeddyBear (6685)
• Canada
22 Mar 10
Hi Pye! I am on your contact list because I got that email from you twice ... once last week and once today about buying some reduced priced products. I just deleted them and I didn't think they were actually from you as I had seen you post about your account being hacked before.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
All I can say whoever does these kind of things must have an awful lot of time on their hands, right?
@quita88 (3715)
• United States
22 Mar 10
I have to say this is getting ridiculous as you say---
I've had two sites sending me mails in the last two weeks
but have marked them as spam but nothing like what you are going
thru.
Have you opened up this site?? If you do, look in tools and there should smart screen filter and it should open up into words that say unsafe website or check this site---
I have done this but the sites still keep coming.
Seriously you need a professional to help you cuz you are being hacked and scammed to is my guess.
I honestly do not know what to tell you to do. I don't know what I 'd do !!
Let us all know in case we get into the same problems.
@cloud_kicker_32 (4635)
• United States
22 Mar 10
hey Pye!! long time no see!its great to see some of my friends are still on here:) I havent been heer in so long..but i saw your thread in my email and i felt so sorry for you..what a bunch of HOOPLAAHH!! soo for the last half hr i have been all over the net lookintg for something that may help and ithink i found something awesome and im gonna use it too lol..because ihave had the same thinghappen to me as well many times..they seem to follow us..soo here is some info..pretty cool too i might say:) its an email..that has Video email * "Mission Impossible" style email * Self destructing * Non Printable * Masquerading * Non forwardable * Recallable-Erasable * Advanced Spam/Virus filters * large attachment capacity * Advanced email tracking * View once email * 1 GB of storage
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
One problem though will that program work for mac computers? My email address has the ability for special protection to via my DSL service but only good for PCs
Yes it has been a long time...glad to see you here again
@GardenGerty (160879)
• United States
23 Mar 10
I am feeling left out. I am on your e mail list, I thought, and I have not received anything from you. Or my filters detect it, which is more likely the case. In which case it has gone to my spam or trash without me ever seeing it. I do not even remember how I set them up, it has been so long ago.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
Don't feel left out...a number of my friends didn't get the latest spam mail...actually consider yourself lucky you didn't
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
While I do have Yahoo IM too I never use any IM thing. Used to annoy me that every time I got a new email it would "ping" to let me know, same when someone was on line and wanted to chat and at the most inconvenient times when I'd be working on photos or something...so just turned it off and never used again
@BarBaraPrz (47611)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Mar 10
Could it have something to do with your imposter of last year?
Not nice, whatever it is.
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
23 Mar 10
There is a lot of this going on on facebook. one of my guy friends sent me like 15 messages one day that showed up in my e-mail. I was curious but thankfully too busy to bother to open them just yet. He never sends me messages on facebook so why so many now? I still can't believe that my curiosity did not get the best of me. His wife who is my bestest friend stopped in my work that night and warned me about her husbands e-mail and not to open it. It was a viris that would attact your whole ststem. hope that is not what you got. don't open any facebook messages thru your e-mail. they look real but they really are not from your friends. When I signed into facebook, this guy did not really send me any messages.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
There was a story about that last week how supposedly one would get an email from Facebook to reset your password and it included an attachment that of course once opened downloaded a virus
@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
22 Mar 10
So, that's why I got that email from you um, lets see, Dec3rd/09. It was from your Yahoo account. Saying that you bought a laptop, I'll copy it here for you:
How are you recently?
I bought a laptop from a website: www.enjoyele.com last week. I have got the product. Its quality is very good and the price is competitive. They also sell phones, TV, psp, motor and so on. By the way, they import product from Korea and sell new and original products. They have good reputation and have many good feedbacks. If you need these products, look at this website will be a clever choice. I am sure you will get many surprise and benefits. you can contact they, Email:enjoyele@hotmail.com Greetings!
I thought it was a bit strange, now I know why!
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@PurpleTeddyBear (6685)
• Canada
22 Mar 10
I'm pretty sure that both emails I got from Pye were the email that she put in the discussion about going to the website and purchasing specialized low priced products BUT I must say that the message you got from her does look familiar. Maybe I got 3 total then. I thought it was just 2! Hmmmmmmmm! Now you've got me thinking! LoL!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
Yeah that Dec one was the first one that was sent out using my email address. I tracked the IP address for those bogus emails btw...they all originate in China! Now wonder the grammar and/or spelling is poor.Also anyone who knows me knows like with that laptop deal I would never have bought one, since most people know I just plain wouldn't have the money for one
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@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
22 Mar 10
Yeah, look at the wording, Pye would never speak like that. It isn't even proper english.
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@celticeagle (168112)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Mar 10
You are kidding? AGAIN!! I wonder if they have a different way of getting in besides going by way of password. You wouldn't think they would. And there probably isn't any way of back tracking to the person sending that note either. It is just getting too easy. Is this person the one that sent me a note about their business yesterday? It was from the wsswcp site. Hmmm??!! (PM me and I will send you a copy if you want it)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
LOL--I already have copies of that latest bogus email. It's not only me though, I'm hearing this kind of thing is getting so common and a lot of my friends email addresses have been compromised--I have heard one can lift email addresses from forwards. Especially when people send them out without deleting all the contact info that's listed...who knows how many times that forward has circulated and who has seen it, right?
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@celticeagle (168112)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Mar 10
Ya, I have done some great detective work using forwarded emails. And some of the groups of emails seem miles long. You get some great referral lists and such from some of them. Hahaha?
@titaniumpen (676)
• Hong Kong
22 Mar 10
Come on, you are receiving spam messages, which does not mean that your account has been hacked. I receive spam messages everyday, but I just ignore them. Just mark it as spam. Even if you change your password one billion times, you can't prevent spam from coming to your e-mail. Accept the truth that the more you're exposed to the internet, the more likely to receive spam. Just don't sign up for online services crazily. You can create an e-mail specialised to receive spam and you can use that address to sign up for stuff.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Mar 10
Yes on occasion I receive spam email and just delete them.....what I'm talking about is spam email IN MY EMAIL address and received by all my contacts and of course I didn't send them. A whole different thing entirely. Do you understand now? Maybe you should read my former discussion about this issue which is here
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2276049.aspx
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
22 Mar 10
i'd use an off-board scanner (like trend micro website)just for farts n giggles.
sometimes it doesn't catch things if you scan from within.
just a thought
i actually didn't get a mail this time.
i actually didn't get a mail this time.1 person likes this
Glad to hear it.
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
22 Mar 10
That's terrible Pye. I didn't get the email yet, but will watch for it. The US Dept of Homeland Security has a link for citizens to guard their online security. Perhaps there's information there that would help you. The INFORMATION ONLY link is:
http://www.onguardonline.gov/default.aspx
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
Thanks ever for that link,...I started reading some things over there...will take awhile 
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
22 Mar 10
I feel your pain. Apparently someone has found a way to access our email accounts without having our passwords. I suppose the IT gurus will catch up to this fault sooner or later. In the meantime we just have to keep telling our friends that those emails weren't from us. I wonder if we deleted our contact list would that put a stop to it? Of course that would make sending emails inconvenient if we had to type everyone's email address every time. If they don't stop this security breach soon we may have to make a hard copy of all our friends and their email addresses and then wipe our contact list.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
Yeah deleting one's contact list would be a royal pain...thing is I have the same contact listing in my other emails and I've never been hacked in those..must be a Yahoo thing
@ravi899 (33)
• India
22 Mar 10
what............... what are you talking is that true, tracking your e-mail, man this is ridicules, by the way tell me where do you use your e-mail through means cybercafes or someones computer huh......yeah just remember yourself dude, so if you do in others computer any type be aware while using and after using because it can be possible to track with the cookies and if your personal comp,, then you have to change the mail site to any most believable and send a mail to your present e-mail site about it better so, cool.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Mar 10
Nope I have my own computer at home--so never use a public computer
@mithunkatula (87)
• India
23 Mar 10
okk now i get the thing....ur e mail address is being used to send these spam messages to everyone in ur contact list and evrytime you change the password still the spam is send from your email id.....may be someone has got a keylogger installed on your system...these keyloggers are really advanced softwares they will send all the information you have typed(on your computer including the site you typed it on) to the person who has installed the keylogger through email...these keyloggers are really advanced you cant detect them anywhere on a computer..it is disguised in the task manager as a system process that to an important process, you wont see it in control panel in add or remove program option, also they do not leave any registry files, also they cannot be detected by any antivirus software and to the last they can be installed on MAC also so my advice is that you must reinstall the OS thats the best way according to me.......
@blogsblog (81)
• Portugal
23 Mar 10
Here's a few things you could do:
- run an online scanner to check for virus/spyware/malware..
- use a tool to check browser settings on your machine (i like hijackthis - if you need help using it let me know)
Maybe you haven't really been hacked. Maybe you're just on mailing lists.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
24 Mar 10
My email might have been lifted due to forwards. Ever get them and the people sending them don't delete the long listing of email addresses..anyone can then copy them
