Hijacked e-mail

[Sdruws]

I received a message in my alternative Yahoo e-mail, advising me that I have
changed my password. I have never ordered any change in my pass. From
previous facts, I am seriously suspecting someone hijacked my e-mail address
and probably is sending mails on my behalf. I contacted Yahoo by mail but
cud only get automatic messages by reply with nonsense guidance.
Can someone who had this problem before give me a highlight what to do ?
Appreciate ur assistance.

 

[N. Miller]

I received a message in my alternative Yahoo e-mail, advising me that I have
changed my password. I have never ordered any change in my pass. From
previous facts, I am seriously suspecting someone hijacked my e-mail address
and probably is sending mails on my behalf. I contacted Yahoo by mail but
cud only get automatic messages by reply with nonsense guidance.
Can someone who had this problem before give me a highlight what to do ?
Appreciate ur assistance.

Your email address can only be "hijacked" if someone gets your password.
More likely your email address has been forged. That is a trivial job, only
requiring that your email address be added in the forger's client where an
email address is expected.

On the subject of forging, or otherwise abusing email, if you are posting
here with a working attglobal.net email address, expect spam and viruses to
pound on it. These MSFT groups are routinely harvested by spammers; worse
are the poor souls who must click on every passing whatever, and are
reading these groups with infected computers. Your email address is in
their message store on their HDD, and will be used to send you everything
from bodywrap spam to Netsky viruses.

It is okay to change your posting email address; MSFT defaults to
<[email protected]> for its Web interface to these
groups, so I appropriated it for posing here. On other servers I use a
construct akin to <can'(e-mail address removed)>.

 

[Chuck]

I received a message in my alternative Yahoo e-mail, advising me that I have
changed my password. I have never ordered any change in my pass. From
previous facts, I am seriously suspecting someone hijacked my e-mail address
and probably is sending mails on my behalf. I contacted Yahoo by mail but
cud only get automatic messages by reply with nonsense guidance.
Can someone who had this problem before give me a highlight what to do ?
Appreciate ur assistance.

Could be a scam. Did it ask you to go to a web site and confirm the
change by entering your old password? If so, and if you did, you got
snookered into giving someone your password. I see fraudulent PayPal and
eBay messages like this all the time.

Can you still log on to your yahoo account with the password you've
always used? If so then nobody has hijacked your *account*. They may be
forging their headers with your *address* though.

If you really think someone may have gotten your password, change it
before they do!

 

[Sdruws]

Many thanks to Miller and Chuck.