Vickles, been to any new websites lately? Any where you had to enter your yahoo email address and password?
How about opening e-mails from people you didn't know? Go to any links in any of those emails?
I've had something similar happen to me twice, once with aol and once with yahoo. The first time, with aol, I received and email supposedly from aol with a link, went to the link and followed the instructions, which included entering my password. It turned out it wasn't really from aol. My password was stolen and my aol account was used to spam people. AOL alerted my of the problem or I wouldn't even have known.
Just recently, this past week in fact, I started getting e-mails in my yahoo account. Actually, they were return e-mails saying the messages I had sent were undeliverable. The thing is, I never sent any of the emails that were returned to me as undeliverable. My guess is that once again someone got my password and was using my account to spam people. I changed my password and have not had a problem since.
You have to be very careful about opening emails from people you don't know and about websites which require you to enter your email address and password.
thanks you guys...I only use my yahoo basically for communication for schools for my kids and one group that I go too. Other than that I don't use it. I haven't opened any mail that I didn't know on yahoo. So I was surprised that this happened.
I was thinking maybe my ex had something to do with this...could this be possible?
Anyone with access to your account (username & password) could have changed it. That would include your ex.
As noted above NEVER answer emails that talk about problems and ask you to email back a password. Legitimate sites that keep your password NEVER ask for them in email. And if you do get an email asking you to log on and correct something NEVER click the URL in the email. Always open a new browser and type it in clean. That way you know you're really going to ebay, or yahoo or whatever.
When you forget a password, there are 2 ways that sites usually handle this. Some sites email you your existing password or let you see it by answering a test question.
Others RESET your password and email (or let you see) the new one. Usually when that happens the new password is quite random. Don't know which way yahoo handles this but if it's the latter that may explain the changed password.
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Vickles, been to any new websites lately? Any where you had to enter your yahoo email address and password?
How about opening e-mails from people you didn't know? Go to any links in any of those emails?
I've had something similar happen to me twice, once with aol and once with yahoo. The first time, with aol, I received and email supposedly from aol with a link, went to the link and followed the instructions, which included entering my password. It turned out it wasn't really from aol. My password was stolen and my aol account was used to spam people. AOL alerted my of the problem or I wouldn't even have known.
Just recently, this past week in fact, I started getting e-mails in my yahoo account. Actually, they were return e-mails saying the messages I had sent were undeliverable. The thing is, I never sent any of the emails that were returned to me as undeliverable. My guess is that once again someone got my password and was using my account to spam people. I changed my password and have not had a problem since.
You have to be very careful about opening emails from people you don't know and about websites which require you to enter your email address and password.
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A common method of "phishing" now is to make a phony copy of a
legit website, and spoof the URL. Then you send an e-mail saying
"your account has been charged for $8,000 of porn. If this is not a
correct charge, click here to correct this."
Whenever you need to fix something, ignore the link you were sent.
Go to the website and access directly from there.
If you think you were hacked, change your password AND secret question.
I don't use yahoo, since spammers know to look for it. There's dozens
of free e-mail domain with more memory, and I use some of those.
If they can't FIND me, they can't SPAM me.
I'd also make sure all my security was up-to-date, just to be sure.
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thanks you guys...I only use my yahoo basically for communication for schools for my kids and one group that I go too. Other than that I don't use it. I haven't opened any mail that I didn't know on yahoo. So I was surprised that this happened.
I was thinking maybe my ex had something to do with this...could this be possible?
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Vickles,
Anyone with access to your account (username & password) could have changed it. That would include your ex.
As noted above NEVER answer emails that talk about problems and ask you to email back a password. Legitimate sites that keep your password NEVER ask for them in email. And if you do get an email asking you to log on and correct something NEVER click the URL in the email. Always open a new browser and type it in clean. That way you know you're really going to ebay, or yahoo or whatever.
When you forget a password, there are 2 ways that sites usually handle this. Some sites email you your existing password or let you see it by answering a test question.
Others RESET your password and email (or let you see) the new one. Usually when that happens the new password is quite random. Don't know which way yahoo handles this but if it's the latter that may explain the changed password.
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If I am not mistaken, when Yahoo sends you a forgotten password, they give you a different one than you had before.
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Steve!
If you get returned emails from emails that you never sent, it might not be anything as nefarious as someone using your actual account.
It could just be someone spoofing your email address.
It's not all that hard to do. I've sent out emails to other people that have looked as if they came from someone else, just as a demonstration.
So don't get your undies in a bunch if you get those, unless you have more reason to believe that someone actually used your account.
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dmiller
I get these all the time.
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I just delete.
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