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BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The yahoo account that I've used exclusively for this forum for 9 years was just compromised this morning.



The email sent by the hijacker to everyone I've ever communicated with posses a the link in the body of the message that if clicked could be a very serious virus.



So please just delete the email as it was not sent by me.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,282 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rut Roh.

    Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody and be perfect !

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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry to hear that......any ransom demands?



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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the warning....Cheers, RickO
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    TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    Just change your password and you should be safe going forward.
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    New strong password needed, they did not go back to when we last talked.
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Lakesammman

    Sorry to hear that......any ransom demands?



    Yahoo? Are they still in business? image




    Nope unfortunately my hijacker wasn't as creative as ColonelJessup's image



    Being stuck in a third world country, having lost his visa, and needing $2850 to get back home.



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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where is Jessup these days?

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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,640 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe change your thread title to "Urgent, do not open emails from my yahoo account"?

    When it's safe again just change your title.

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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Boosibri

    Where is Jessup these days?


    Stuck in Zambia without a passport and needing $2850 to get out.

    You can follow his plight at www.free_the_colonol.org. image

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hope it all works out for you and best wishes with it.
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    LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    i hear bologna1 is a good password. image

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    KyleKyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You should think about switching over to Gmail, that way you can have two-step verification.
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    CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yahoo $uck$.

    I get 10 times more spam from the yahoo domain than all others combined.

    Tempted to block the entire yahoo domain.

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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This happens with Yahoo! email all the time.



    Forget just changing your password.



    Never....EVER create an address book in Yahoo! email.



    The good news, most of the time the virus/worm is innocent from what I've encountered.
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    TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    I got here as fast as I could.

    EVERYONE - REMAIN CALM

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