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Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accounts?
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:14 am
by redruggers
Emails from known addresses (in my gmail contacts list) that contain only a link, presumably toxic.
I used to get one of these every few weeks. In the past week it has gotten to be many per day, especially the past couple of days. I don't know why or how this would be associated with the implosion of VW, but the affected account has pretty much only addresses of people I know through VW.
And is there any recommended way of addressing these (except of course deleting them)?
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:42 am
by moneymaker
I can't say for sure it's related to VW either but my yahoo email was hacked and used to send out spam this past weekend. I only used that email for RC for the last few years so I have to assume that it has something to do with the breakdown of this site or the other site that has started up. I find it more than a little concerning from a security standpoint...
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:48 am
by Jammer
I've gotten about 10 of them also...as far as I can tell, they are all from people I know with yahoo accounts. I would think this is more likely a problem with yahoo then with VW or VC as some of these contacts have not been active here for a long while.
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:35 pm
by Superguy
Yahoo sent me two alerts of my account being hijacked. I have changed the PW for the account. If you have anYahoo email, the alert is upper right.
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:18 pm
by redruggers
Jammer wrote:I've gotten about 10 of them also...as far as I can tell, they are all from people I know with yahoo accounts. I would think this is more likely a problem with yahoo then with VW or VC as some of these contacts have not been active here for a long while.
Mine are about half yahoo and half hotmail.
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:25 pm
by BandH
We started getting them about 3 days ago block of 6 all same time, couple saying unable to deliver as if we had sent them all with attachments. Never had any before, plus now had 4 'one time invites from VC' to join them as well :?:
PS ours is a hotmail account
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:58 pm
by shadowrydr
OMFG MY FREE EMAIL ADDRESS IS BEING OVER RUN WITH SPAM
Re: Anybody seeing surge in spam emails from hijacked accoun
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:44 pm
by cerebio
I've seen more spam from hotmail in particular but yahoo as well of late. Nothing to do with VW as far as I can tell.
Most e-mail clients will allow you to flag messages as spam or junk. That will alleviate the symptoms usually as your mail client 'learns' the signature features of these mails and will automatically flag messages that are similar. Either your mail client will automatically isolate junk mail in a separate folder, which is nice, or you can set up a rule to do it. It all depends on your mail client how well this works.