People who get offended and indignant when you tell them they may have been hacked?
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The computer program was written by a person, but no, it does not require someone to sit and send out e-mails. Just like robo calls come en masse from computers, and there really doesn't have to be anyone around unless something goes wrong with the computer.
I had first thought this was just a weird oddity with my sister, but then in the last couple years,
I've seen close to 10 people have this same kind of reaction.
Here's the typical story: I receive a weird e-mail or facebook message appearing to be from someone I know, but clearly not from them (especially if they are trying to sell something or make you click on something). I notify the person, "hey you might have been hacked or may have a virus, because I got this weird message appearing to be from you...."
Their response is something like, "It's not ME! I don't have a virus! It must be you! Someone must have hacked you!" I respond with, "Well, of course I checked on that, I changed my passwords, etc, but I wanted you to be aware because there are multiple messages with your name on them. Plus I don't even have FB messenger on my phone." But they remain offended as if I said or implied that they may be "dirty" in some way.
I don't get it, they react as if I just told them I thought they had herpes, AIDS, and cooties all at one time. Why all this vehement denial that it can't be possible that THEY were hacked, that it must be ME who has been hacked? Dude, it's okay, people get hacked all the time. Especially if you have FB messenger; they then get access to all of your contacts, work, personal, e-mail, phone, friends, etc.
Anyone else notice this phenomenon, or do I just maybe associate with strange people?
Skip the virus part as it is less likely this is the reason. Instead tell them to change their email password (or whatever password such as Facebook) as someone seems to have gotten into their account probably due to Yahoo, AOL or even Facebook being hacked not them. Point them to various news articles about just such hacking.
This is why personally, the only contact in the online account (all my contacts are on my computer or ipad) is my own address. This way I can see if the account was hacked. I was constantly getting these from my sister who had an old account she forgot the password to so never used. Finally she contacted Yahoo to ask them to either give her access or close the account because someone was spamming her friends.
I had first thought this was just a weird oddity with my sister, but then in the last couple years,
I've seen close to 10 people have this same kind of reaction.
Here's the typical story: I receive a weird e-mail or facebook message appearing to be from someone I know, but clearly not from them (especially if they are trying to sell something or make you click on something). I notify the person, "hey you might have been hacked or may have a virus, because I got this weird message appearing to be from you...."
Their response is something like, "It's not ME! I don't have a virus! It must be you! Someone must have hacked you!" I respond with, "Well, of course I checked on that, I changed my passwords, etc, but I wanted you to be aware because there are multiple messages with your name on them. Plus I don't even have FB messenger on my phone." But they remain offended as if I said or implied that they may be "dirty" in some way.
I don't get it, they react as if I just told them I thought they had herpes, AIDS, and cooties all at one time. Why all this vehement denial that it can't be possible that THEY were hacked, that it must be ME who has been hacked? Dude, it's okay, people get hacked all the time. Especially if you have FB messenger; they then get access to all of your contacts, work, personal, e-mail, phone, friends, etc.
Anyone else notice this phenomenon, or do I just maybe associate with strange people?
I think you might be associating with a hyper-touch loony. That's my professional opinion.
I had first thought this was just a weird oddity with my sister, but then in the last couple years,
I've seen close to 10 people have this same kind of reaction.
Here's the typical story: I receive a weird e-mail or facebook message appearing to be from someone I know, but clearly not from them (especially if they are trying to sell something or make you click on something). I notify the person, "hey you might have been hacked or may have a virus, because I got this weird message appearing to be from you...."
Their response is something like, "It's not ME! I don't have a virus! It must be you! Someone must have hacked you!" I respond with, "Well, of course I checked on that, I changed my passwords, etc, but I wanted you to be aware because there are multiple messages with your name on them. Plus I don't even have FB messenger on my phone." But they remain offended as if I said or implied that they may be "dirty" in some way.
I don't get it, they react as if I just told them I thought they had herpes, AIDS, and cooties all at one time. Why all this vehement denial that it can't be possible that THEY were hacked, that it must be ME who has been hacked? Dude, it's okay, people get hacked all the time. Especially if you have FB messenger; they then get access to all of your contacts, work, personal, e-mail, phone, friends, etc.
Anyone else notice this phenomenon, or do I just maybe associate with strange people?
No, I think that's odd. A couple of times my old AOL email address, which I keep and only use for a few things, got hacked, and I knew about it because a friend of mine got weird emails from it and sent me an email saying she thought I'd been hacked. I appreciated it.
I suspect I know the hacker, too, and so I changed my password to "F***You<hisname>.
The only thing I've seen that's at all useful to any extent is when people post on something like Facebook that this has happened to warn the unsuspecting that it wasn't from them so the naïve won't respond...although that's probably even too late
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