2006-12-04, 17:01 | Link #1 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Anyone have this happen to their e-mail address?
For about a year, someone has been using my old e-mail address to regiser for accounts on message boards, chat sites places to contact people and all these places I haven't heard of. I kept getting all these messages about all theswe usernames on at least ten different websites that keep joining this sites using my e-mail address. How do I figure out who keeps doing this? They sign up for sites to chat with people, add people to contact lists, message boards and all sorts of stuff. Why have they been doing this for over a year? Can I find out who they are and get them to stop registering accounts in my e-mail address on chat websites. It's so weird, it's my old e-mail address anyway. Well, at least it's better then the time a different e-mail address of mine was used by someone to send viruses and weird messages to people. I knew that that was a virus type of thing, it was sending hundreds of e-mails containing viruses and weird messages to hundreds of people I didn't know using my e-mail. Eventually that stopped, but at least I knew what that was. Howevever, this thing isn't about a virus, this time it's just really random.
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2006-12-04, 17:58 | Link #3 | |
Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
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Haven't you already posted a similar question before?
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2006-12-04, 19:11 | Link #4 |
I am mowing clowns
Join Date: Dec 2005
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You probably can't ... at least not without a lot of work (which would be a waste of time, JMFO).
Close the email account so that it doesn't damage your reputation (if that's important or relevant) and use a different email account, but for Gods sake, close (or delete it if you can) the email account that has been infiltrated by this stranger. You can't get it back. It's dead Jim. Email accounts are a dime-a-dozen. It sounds like you have another one that you're using now. As jedinat suggests below, don't give out your email addy so freely or use disposable email accounts. Cheers. |
2006-12-05, 14:49 | Link #5 |
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This was actually a different problem from before. I wasn't sure which forum to put it in, since this wasn't really about pcs. The last thing I had mentioned about the e-mail addresses took place a long time ago. This is a different issue, I brought up the past issue and that is why it probably seemed similar. Thank you for moving it, sorry for creating another thread, this was about a different topic, it seemed similar because I brought up something from before I mentioned, but this was different. Sorry.
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2006-12-11, 01:32 | Link #6 |
Founder, Sprocket Hole
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Fresno or Sacramento, CA
Age: 55
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To address the issue that xris posts about, it's also entirely possible that someone ELSE has your e-mail address and THEY got infected. Microsoft products like Outlook Express and Internet Explorer are extremely popular entry vectors as well as sources of information on where to try spreading to next. Newer viruses now scrape the user's IE cache and OE address books as well as the user's files for addresses not only to send to, but in many cases nowadays, to send FROM.
--Ian. |
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