Hook
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Doug Means, has your email be compromised?
I just got an email from a Doug Means that has the earmarks of an email account that has been taken over. The email had nothing but a web link. No
subject.
Anyone else get this?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
I just got an email from a Doug Means that has the earmarks of an email account that has been taken over. The email had nothing but a web link. No
subject.
Anyone else get this? |
Just send him the money he's asking for. He does this every year around Christmas. 
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shari
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me too...I thought he was suggesting I change professions! sure would make more $ than I do now....hmmmm
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bajajudy
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sounds like a hacking
do not open the link
if you did, change your password immediately
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thebajarunner
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I did not open it,
By now I know better
yep, I too got one...
cyberworld can be a b-tchy place, sad to say
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BajaNomad
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My Yahoo account password appeared to get compromised. Lots of email sent to addresses in stored emails (not necessarily address book emails).
It's a pain in the tush to change the password through ATT... they send you to the main account, and that login gets changed, but my email account can
still be accessed with the old password still.
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David K
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So Doug, your uncle isn't the Minister of Treasury, in Nigeria???
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thebajarunner
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More Spam from Doug
Got another one today
Did not open it but the description was the usual
DK may be right about Doug having Nigerian uncles
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BajaNomad
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Update...
Password is now changed. Had to actually call AT&T to get this resolved.
They have a very weird system... I have one user/pass for billing at att.com, and at the same login screen, another user/pass for email - the two are
not connected.
So I've been changing the password on the billing login without knowing I was supposed to login under a different user/pass to make the email password
change.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
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woody with a view
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"So I've been changing the password on the billing login without knowing I was supposed to login under a different user/pass to make the email
password change."
and here we all thought you were the resident computer geek!
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