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Scary Email Scams...
Just got a beaut... Email claims to have captured me in a compromising video by hacking my webcam and will send it to everyone in my addressbook unless I send $1900 to his bitcoin account. Includ...
MarkJFine wrote:Cheers. Filed it on theor site, although the entire email including headers wouldn't fit in the space they provide.
Just rolling my eyes here. You'd think they'd provide more space.
maratsade wrote:Just rolling my eyes here. You'd think they'd provide more space.
They probably provided enough space for a normal email, but Outlook.com email servers add a ton of ridiculous headers. Not just X-this, X-that. So much nonsense that 75% of the headers and none of body fit. And the body was in two sections: a plain text and html-ready part with a lot of my name commented between every so many characters. So that part was bloated too.
Wouldn't they have experience with this sort of thing though and expect that not all emails that get reported will be neat and tidy and fit in the space? In any case, i hope they take your report seriously and do something about it.
I'm still changing passwords, just in case.
MarkJFine wrote:I'm still changing passwords, just in case.
I don't blame you one bit. It's ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry.
When I had my email hacked years ago I went through and changed every password I had, which took quite some time.
On any site that I've used any financially connected info I change my password every few months. I wish every website gave the option to check a box that would prompt you to change your password after every so many days. Microsoft used to do that (72 days, I think it was), though not anymore.
