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rockerrick · 03-21-2013, 08:29 AM

Earlier this week I received Group Spam from 2 different providers . On it were quite a few hobbyists I know . Well this morning I received one from Myself , obvious conclusion is my account has been compromised by the first Group Spam . I have complained to Yahoo and they had me change my password to prevent the Spammers from having continued access to my email account . If you have ever received one of these Group Spam emails , change your password immediately !!!!!!

Mojojo · 03-21-2013, 11:22 AM

That means you need to ease off the porn!

rockerrick · 03-21-2013, 04:43 PM

LOL , but the name on the account was changed 6+ months ago , so it has to have been taken from an old source I.E. a providers contact list . Otherwise it would say what's on there now .

viking2341 · 03-21-2013, 11:22 PM

The reality is there is nothing you can do. I have tried it all and still have lost email accounts to ridiculous spamming and at least one hack. Keep all vital information on a SSD locked in a fire proof safe, nothing else is 100% safe.

slickzero · 03-22-2013, 11:20 AM

Lost a yahoo account last week. Started getting spammed and then couldn't log in

Lauren Lane · 03-22-2013, 11:34 AM

I went a very long time without getting any spam. Posted an ad on here a few weeks back and bam spammed daily now. UGH. Spammers trolling the ads for email addresses?

slickzero · 03-22-2013, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Lauren Lane

I went a very long time without getting any spam. Posted an ad on here a few weeks back and bam spammed daily now. UGH. Spammers trolling the ads for email addresses?

If your email is posted somewhere online it will eventually get scraped and spammed.

There are tools than crawl the Internet looking for emails to collect.

Champagne Brown · 03-22-2013, 12:48 PM

Yeah that happened to me last week and had to change my password.