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STAFFORD, VA -- The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy. But in Stafford County, one family is suffering through tears, anger and pain. They've been hammered by a barrage emails from their dead mother's account.
Crazy. I've never heard of this before but I do know people who have had their email account taken over. My son lost his hotmail account for months and like they stated in the OP he couldn't reset anything since the backup email account was changed as well. Eventually it was straightened out and I hope this family can get it done quickly.
Just for starters, Yahoo should forget whose e-mail account is being used and just shut the thing down for sending out spam. Sometimes the best solution is the easiest one.
Gimme a friggen break. Just set a rule to dump emails from her address and problem solved. Why the big song and dance routine. So mommy got a virus that hijacked her address book looking at porn. Woopdi doo. These people are just cruising for a lawsuit. Go cry on facebook maybe they'll care there.
Gimme a friggen break. Just set a rule to dump emails from her address and problem solved. Why the big song and dance routine. So mommy got a virus that hijacked her address book looking at porn. Woopdi doo. These people are just cruising for a lawsuit. Go cry on facebook maybe they'll care there.
I had the same thought but then it occurred to me that they are probably upset that lewd, rude, and nasty emails are sent out in her name, thereby defiling her memory (as a devout Christina woman - something along those lines was mentioned in the article).
Well that's what happens when you get your address book hijacked. No reason to get upset is my point. Use the technology at your fingertips or just log off and be done with it. Or dare I say why don't they just get a new email address and the spam will stop coming????
Well that's what happens when you get your address book hijacked. No reason to get upset is my point. Use the technology at your fingertips or just log off and be done with it. Or dare I say why don't they just get a new email address and the spam will stop coming????
Well, the can't access the account because the person who hacked it changed the password along with the backup email address that would normally allow access to the account. Thus, they have no power over it.
I also don't think they are not necessarily concerned with receiving emails from this account to their own account. They could simply block the sender if that were the issue. Rather (and this is just my guess), they don't want offensive spam bearing their mother's name to reach millions of people.
So it's not that the address book was stolen (or hijacked) but that the entire account is used to send spam, always showing their dead mother's name as the sender.
I don't know who is taking to time to change the login and password on this womans account and send out spam to her book. Heck after 90 or 180 days most accounts lock out for non use or somewhere along that timeline. It really doesn't make sense. Maybe it's not some hacker as they are claiming but some loon in the family? Nobody is gonna hijack one account like that. Waste of time. Her address book just found it's way onto some spammer list and off they go. I doubt closing the account down would stop them.
I don't know who is taking to time to change the login and password on this womans account and send out spam to her book. Heck after 90 or 180 days most accounts lock out for non use or somewhere along that timeline. It really doesn't make sense. Maybe it's not some hacker as they are claiming but some loon in the family? Nobody is gonna hijack one account like that. Waste of time. Her address book just found it's way onto some spammer list and off they go. I doubt closing the account down would stop them.
The way I understand it, the account never stayed inactive (assuming that an inactive account would be closed down - which I have never experienced with any of my providers). Rather, it was hacked and has been used for spamming ever since.
I also don't think they are trying to stop the spammer per se. They are just trying to stop spam coming from an email account with their mother's name.
See, it's like me hacking into your personal email account, changing the password so that you have no access to it, and then sending pro-Obama, pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, etc. (assuming from your posts that you are on the other end of the spectrum) emails to millions of people.
In a sense, that would be character assassination - and that's why the family is upset.
Still, I don't understand why they cannot produce a death certificate - and find that rather odd...
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