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PIEERE · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hacked E Mail Accout

Old Snipe · RV-Dreams Family Member

My G-mail account on my blog has been apparently hacked and apparent spam has been sent to folks in my address book. How does one rectify this?

Thanks!

GENECOP · RV-Dreams Family Member

Not sure Paul but I have noticed some friends of mine who have gotten hacked, the only thing that has happened is me and several other of his friends have gotten Mail pertaining to enlarging ones body parts....they stopped after a couple of weeks...

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

I might would be inclined to wait before removing any services or software just yet. Give those manufacturers/services a chance to address any problems that they may have and perhap send out updates to fix those problems.

We have similarly been hacked before. Basically, they just get into our e-mail address book and send messages to many of the people there. We've usually been told that someone on our list got a spam e-mail, so we would send a message to most of them telling them to delete any messages that only contained spam or just a link. We never send an e-mail without explaining what any enclosed link is all about.

One funny with our issue. Our primary e-mail account is through AOL, and that service ADDS the e-mail addresses of anyone that we send messages to, even if it is only a one time deal. Well, Jo and I had sent off a whole bunch of messages expressing our displeasure with some legislation that was being considered by our legislature for passage into law. Well, guess where most of those messages went? Yep, our legislators were contacted with a spam mail because of that. I imagine that occurs a lot in the legislature.

I would suggest that one look at their e-mail address book and remove any that are not really people or businesses or organizations that one normally contacts.

Terry

karen948 · RV-Dreams Family Member

I had that happen to my account and was told to change my e-mail password. After I changed the password, no more problems.

RVRon · RV-Dreams Family Member

karen948 wrote:
I had that happen to my account and was told to change my e-mail password. After I changed the password, no more problems.

Ditto what Karen says. Just change the password to your account and the hackers can't get access to it. Until you do that nothing will change from what I've heard and folks on your contact list will continue to get the spam. Also make sure you give your computer a good virus scan just in case something is on there that sends your new password to the hackers.

TXRVr · RV-Dreams Family Member

There is a farily easy solution to this problem that costs around $4-5/month. It would be to buy our own domain that comes with email accounts. As an example: Purchase a domain called Bubba.com and then set up your email account named myemail.inbox@bubba.com

I have been doing this for 5 years and never once had a single spam email. Depending on the domain host, you might get a free website service. With that, it is possible to convert blogs to a personal website.

-- Edited by TXRVr on Tuesday 22nd of January 2013 05:31:10 PM

-- Edited by TXRVr on Tuesday 22nd of January 2013 05:31:38 PM

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

like it has been said...change your password.....that will cure now and future use of the account.......and watch the sites you go on and use your E-mail at.

markspend1 · RV-Dreams Community Member

Hello Guys i think that You need to provide as much details as you can about those records. That is the name of labeling made,approximately date of registration,also details about other Google products connected to those records.For more information visit that URL:

support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183733

-- Edited by markspend1 on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 12:34:36 PM

Edit by moderator: Activated link. Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 03:21:46 PM

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

markspend1 wrote:
Hello Guys i think that You need to provide as much details as you can about those records. That is the name of labeling made,approximately date of registration,also details about other Google products connected to those records.For more information visit that URL:

support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183733

-- Edited by markspend1 on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 12:34:36 PM

SPAM ALERT!!! Woops.....false alarm

-- Edited by Racerguy on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 05:08:56 PM

bigredoes · RV-Dreams Family Member

Old Snipe....perchance do you happen to be on Facebook.....

my experience has been when I start getting those spam type emails from folks....it is because they have FB and then the email address they use for FB starts sending out spam msgs to everyone in their address book......

so if this is your situation....change the FB password....

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Racerguy wrote:
markspend1 wrote:
Hello Guys i think that You need to provide as much details as you can about those records. That is the name of labeling made,approximately date of registration,also details about other Google products connected to those records.For more information visit that URL:

support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183733

-- Edited by markspend1 on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 12:34:36 PM
SPAM ALERT!!!

George,

It's not a spam comment. Old Snipe's original comment was about G-mail, a part of Google and markspend1 simply provided a link to some information

Terry