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MarkJFine
7 years agoProfessor
Hackers are using people's email addresses
Received three emails in succession from a peer-to-peer energy transfer site: account notification, account verification, and a welcome email all in a matter of seconds of each other. I quickly w...
GabeU
7 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
I had my email hacked a few years back. It was my own fault, as I was using a weak password. Now, even though I change the password on a regular basis and to something that would probably take the greatest password cracker in the world weeks to figure out, if not months, my email address is still spoofed, and sometimes back to me.
There's nothing I can do about it now, and the only option I really have if I ever want to truly not deal with it anymore is create a new email address. And, in reality, I should. It just stinks as I've had my email address since 1998. :(
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