email hacking

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chrissy

Hi, I have suspicions that my ex has worked out my
password for my hotmail account and is reading and
deleting my email at his leisure. (He is about 25 miles
away) Is there any way that I can find out for sure that
this is happening or anyway of tracing such goings on?
Thanks.
 
chrissy said:
Hi, I have suspicions that my ex has worked out my
password for my hotmail account and is reading and
deleting my email at his leisure. (He is about 25 miles
away) Is there any way that I can find out for sure that
this is happening or anyway of tracing such goings on?
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I agree with the other poster in this matter.

Why not just change your password to something more complicated and that
only you know?

Do this, come up with a phrase or sentence you can remember and take the
first few letters off the first of each word.. or the middle, or the last
part or mix it up. Exchange a few letters for numbers. Use that as your
password. For example: My ex is a viscious pig-like creep. That could
become "My3x154v1cp1g-l1k3cr33p" (using the whole sentence and substituting
numbers for some letters.) Or anything in-between. And the chances of your
Ex "guessing" something like that is slim to none.
 
I've thought of that but I wanted to know if I could
trace whats going on.Is there anyway of doing this?
 
I hope you have changed your pw. Consider this scenario .. if someone does know your pw, they might change it and you will then not have any access to your e-mail account. As far as trying to determine if someone has your pw and is removing e-mails from the account .. you could send an e-mail to your account from a free e-mail account you open on the Web. Place content in the e-mail that you think might cause the culprit to delete the e-mail. Then see if the e-mail is removed from the account in question.
 
Pavey said:
I hope you have changed your pw. Consider this scenario .. if
someone does know your pw, they might change it and you will then not
have any access to your e-mail account. As far as trying to
determine if someone has your pw and is removing e-mails from the
account .. you could send an e-mail to your account from a free
e-mail account you open on the Web. Place content in the e-mail that
you think might cause the culprit to delete the e-mail. Then see if
the e-mail is removed from the account in question.
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Or better yet, change the password first, email all the friends who may have
been sending the questionable content in the last week or two, have them
resend the email (with the cover story that your email account was messed
up) and then read away.
 
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