Old Hippie Posted October 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 Any ideas how to stop it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 1, 2010 Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 My Hotmail - mailing list also was hacked or stolen recently. Don't have a clue how the hackers obtained my mailing list. But fortunately I have only a few names in the address book - as I use multiple email accounts - gmail, yahoo, aol, etc. And on that Hotmail account the few names on list - those people emailed me asking why I was trying to sell some product. Interestingly, shortly after this Hotmail made me change my password from 6 numbers/letters to 8 numbers/letters. After that, the bogus emails stopped. What I have since done is to place my own email address in address book and also an email address that does not work - both so that if something is ever mass mailed again using my correct email address - I will get one myself and a return to sender. So in theory, I should know right away. This only happened in Hotmail. And this Hotmail is a web based Windows Live Hotmail. Also after some research, I was advised not to use web based email for anything important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Any ideas how to stop it? Sign up for a gmail account the further you get away from Microsoft, the less viruses etc you encounter. Here I'm not sure but i think you can import all your stuff from hotmail into Gmail, but google is your friend.. Line 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preahko Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 the further you get away from Microsoft, the less viruses etc you encounter. haha, truer words were never spoken... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Yeah well for what ever reason, creating a gmail accounts seems impossible...no idea why, just some bullshit message about an age requirement, I filled in all the shit they asked for, close to true...and WTF? I ghet that message? fuck them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 LOL you must be the only person I've ever encountered that has had an issue getting a gmail account... They never refuse anyone, I've got 6 of them, age requirement? I've never seen an age requirement?, I just made a new one just then, no age requirement, sure it was gmail you were at? Hang on if I do this from NZ they don't want to know by DOB but from the US you do, I see, Birthday: MM/DD/YYYY (e.g. "10/2/2010") try using a "real" birthday, you're not 21 anymore Cheers Coss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 I used a real birthday...and it still gave me shit...I'll try again later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 I used a real birthday...and it still gave me shit...I'll try again later... Gmail is tied up with geneology.com and they ask for your great, great, great, great grandmothers maiden name. Screw that up and you are done. Seriously, OH, I got 5 gmail accounts and each came with 100 invitations. "Send Invite 95 left" and that is only on one of my Gmail accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 Also, which box did you check under heading: Sexual Orientation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 He checked...all the above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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