Unwanted intruder in my mailbox-has been a target of a serious phishing attack

It has happened to me and also to my contacts. That is the right thing you have done by changing the password. Worse things have happened to me in that I have been receiving messages supposed to be from my contacts but from the language I suspected and I did not open those messages but alerted my contacts and my guess was right.They had not sent those messages. They had attacked my address book. I immediately changed my password.

I have had this problem many a times with my hotmail account. And inspite of me hardly logging into this account. I have changed the password a few times but the problem persists.

Yes, I did receive a few messages from you about making money :-) I'm not sure if it has happened to me before...no one ever told me that they received such a mail. I don't think it has. I have a friend who works in security systems and he regularly reminds me to change my password.And anytime I have a doubt over security, I ask him. He also asked me to set up a strong anti-virus software (not the free ones)...but I'm not sure if it scans emails. If I'm not mistaken it only checks the files and the websites we check out and the stuff we download.

Yes, I recently had a problem with some phishing going on from my yahoo account. I changed the pass word and unlinked it from other sites such as Facebook, and then did a full virus scan. McAfee found a trojan.. So it may have been then. Meanwhile I stopped used my Yahoo account and moved everything to another webmail and completely emptied the address book on Yahoo too. Everything has been OK for the last two weeks, so hopefully that will be an end to it. _Derek

kalav usually if you have a great virus protection it will pick up that stuff.either you have a virus thats sending out false messages o rone ofyour fri endes does so delete delete delete.My virus protecton showed that this stuff coming in to me was a virus on a friends computer not mine so she ran a scan and it picked u p a trojan horse virus in her m ail box not mine, my AVG did a great jof of deleting all virus laden suff.

It just happened to me for the first time yesterday. I just deleted the mails (it was the kind of "delivery mail failure" with contacts I did not know. There are many awful things that hackers do and I wish I knew what fun do they get out of this!

It is actually fairly unlikely that your email was hacked (especially if there is no evidence of messages going out in your Sent box). It does no harm, however, to change your email password. It is actually incredibly easy to change the email address in the From: field of an email to make it look as if it came from your email address. This results in YOU getting the 'undeliverable' messages, of course. Spammers regularly do this (and have software which does it automatically), using any random name from their list of addresses. Even if some of your contacts have also received messages which appear to be from you, this doesn't necessarily mean that the spammer has accessed your address book. How often have you forwarded something to a whole lot of friends (maybe everyone on your contacts list) or received one of these mails from a friend? That sort of 'round robin' mail almost inevitably contains over 100 email addresses and the list gets added to every time it's forwarded. Eventually someone receiving one of those mails will send a copy to a person whose business is to harvest and sell email addresses to spammers.

Kalav, i had been receiving this type of phishing emails daily into my email box. What i do is, deleting them whenever they are in my junk email section. Because i don't know how to stop them from sending those unwanted phishing emails into my email box. Hope you install the updated anti-virus to overcome this phishing email problem. I know those are phishing emails because they are being filtered and dump in my junk email section by my anti-virus. I think having an updated anti-virus is worth it.

Hi kala di... Same issue occurred with me, some stranger girls offered me some odd requests. I was searching about how did they gain my id, but it was an useless labor as they just type some alphabets and numbers to have a mail id... so just forget and ignore didi. Wish to tell you that i had the subscription of mail from bharatmatrimony.com but as i have my fiance now, so i unsubscribed my mail but still i am receiving... it means they seeks their field of popularity around the globe. Have a nice time.

my advice is that you must never accept strange message , read only messages from persons you know , and also never do the same password with different email services .

I also experience this kind of phishing attack of my emails. What I did is inform my contacts that don’t open the message that being sent because it’s a virus and containing malicious one. The best thing I did is reformat my computer, because even I change may password nothings happen.