Is nothing sacred?
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
March 11, 2013 12:27pm CST
You know the e-mails. You get one from a friend or contact, and when you open it, there's nothing there but a spammy looking link. You e-mail your contact that they've been hacked, then you delete it.
Stupid hackers.
Today I got two of them, one from my dentis and one from my veterinarian.
Happy hackers.
They got into two accounts that had really large contact lists.
I hope my dentist and my vet go in and change their passwords to something harder.
And as always, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest the body hair of all hackers.
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18 responses
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
11 Mar 13
Only a thousand camels?
I haven't had any emails like this lately but had quite a lot last year. I hope they change their passwords
I haven't had any emails like this lately but had quite a lot last year. I hope they change their passwords3 people like this
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
11 Mar 13
So many of us have seen those or been hacked ourselves. You would think there would be a lot of fleas.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Mar 13
I would never remember a password like that. but I do have several that are variations of a number that is associated with me, but that nobody would guess, and a word that is associated with me, but that nobody would guess. And then I add special characters, caps, etc., as required.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
11 Mar 13
That happens all the time. Those hackers sure are smart. Too bad they don't use their intelligence and skills for something noble.
My yahoo got hacked too. I changed my password to something else. I don't know how they do it. It worry they can get into my bank account. When I get hacked I also change my bank password.
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@finlander60 (1804)
• United States
11 Mar 13
I will not put my bank accounts online. NOT GONNA HAPPEN IN THIS LIFETIME.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
17 Mar 13
I seem to have the wrong end of things. I thought that when you are hacked, someone actually gets into your account and takes control of it.
I thought that what has happened to you here is that you have been phished. Someone on the vet's email list has not cleaned up their email and the list has been collected and sold. Then every address on that list has been searched for other addresses and info and so on. Then you are all spammed.
I know you clean up your emails Dawn with no trace of who sent them or from where but most people don't.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Mar 13
It came from the dentist and the vet's e-mail accounts, so ThEy were hacked....
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 Mar 13
I got a spam text this morning before 6:45 this morning and I have bad eyes. Even putting on my astignatism prescription glasses did not help much. I think your dentist, and vet have to change their email, not their password to work.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Mar 13
Wait just a minute here. . .do camels even have fleas?
Seriously though, I know exactly what you mean about these silly things and it seems that I've been getting more and more of those, but at least I'm able to delete those emails. The big problem is that our automatic bill pay on our bank has been hacked into and the suggestion is for us to open a new checking account. But then I wouldn't have any checks or anything and bills have to be paid. So we will just leave our account with our electronic banking turned off.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
15 Mar 13
I belonged to a fraternity back when I was still in University. And then, I'm part of the Alumni Association that regularly get updates about our group. Once in a while, there'd be a post on our FB group, or an email from my inbox which is clearly from hackers...
May the fleas go to them as well!
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
11 Mar 13
Hi dawland
I too get mails , notifications of this kind . Recently i got a notification saying your gmail has been opened at Singapore and some other country. LOL i was shocked to see that i am in India , immediately i changed my password this is weird sometimes to see someone using our mail . I hope that they did not miss use it .
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@finlander60 (1804)
• United States
11 Mar 13
Don't put anything online that you wouldn't want to be known all over the world.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
11 Mar 13
Yeah, I get those frequently. Can't block them as the address is correct and I get real and true mails from the friends/relatives. I have notified a couple of the friends that have been hacked and they had to completely abandon that address and open a new one.
Funny thing though....I once received one of those hacked spams from one of my own email accounts. I changed the password and so far that hasn't been repeated.
Yahoo mails are bad about this. I just no longer use Yahoo for anything.
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
12 Mar 13
I get them,too. One day I got one from my boss and a co-worker! I told both of them. One deleted his e-mail address. My boss was not shocked. It seems to happen to so many people! My sister's account has been hacked,too. Her e-mail contained selling viagara! I know my e-mail was hacked here and on Facebook. After I changed both passwords I have had no more trouble. I hope that stays that way! I think one reasons hackers do it bccause they have nothimg better to do! 
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
11 Mar 13
My email used to be my home page, but I changed my home page and now I forget to check my email. lol
I may have been hacked and don't know it? oh my!
