Corrupt email...Additional information...
- 4 September 2012 18:22189994This time it's Kath's turn...
"Hi
I made a trip to Madrid, Spain and had my bag stolen from me with cash
and credit cards in it. I am in contact with my bank but they are not
providing a quick solution.
Luckily am not hurt, but urgently in need of some money to sort my
self out of this predicament, I will pay back as soon as I return.
Please let me know if you will be able to help, so I can send you the
details needed to send money. I don't yet have a local phone (still
gathering my bearings), so email is probably the best form of contact
for now. Waiting for a response from you
Regards,"
Signed off so...
*kathleen hollingsbee
I am not old...
I am just a recycled teenager !Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 4 September 2012 18:44189998Was just about to post that - another account hacked
Been nice knowing you :) - 4 September 2012 18:53190001Yes as you know it happen two times in seven Days,it costed me alot not only the cash,but time, Aand council work,still not got over it all yet,all my work with my own NHS E.K.T.and so on. I now have change my email, I do not work much on the P.C anymore,so please be very carfully,if it does not look right,then 99.5%it will not be,so do not log into it.
- 4 September 2012 18:53190002Yes as you know it happen two times in seven Days,it costed me alot not only the cash,but time, Aand council work,still not got over it all yet,all my work with my own NHS E.K.T.and so on. I now have change my email, I do not work much on the P.C anymore,so please be very carfully,if it does not look right,then 99.5%it will not be,so do not log into it.
- 4 September 2012 19:10190006Rarely are these anything to do with your PC being hacked, it is your online account like happened to mine, so just needs a password changeBeen nice knowing you :)
- 4 September 2012 19:29190015I believe they are sorting it out now.
- 4 September 2012 19:47190018There's an urgent email from Kath in my box, but having read first this thread, haven't opened it. However, if I had, I'd have had to send the unfortunate news that I survive with my nose above the water...
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 4 September 2012 21:03190026Thanks to everyone for their concern. All sorted now. Very annoying, someone had hacked into my e-mail; but with help of our son (who works for Apple), on end of phone for over an hour, together he and I re-programmed and got new (generated) passwords for everything !
Fortunately nothing of note is lost but apologies to anyone who was troubled with this stupid but worrying e-mail. The same happened to two friends of ours in the last year. Hope all is more secure now.
Kath---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 4 September 2012 21:05190027Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 4 September 2012 21:35190029I do believe that this thread has given me a topic for discussion at the IT class for the over-50s I teach on Thursday. My class will be delighted to listen to me rant about email security for an hour
Non me minoris aestimo - 4 September 2012 22:10190031Be sure Paul, to let them all know that a dodgy email is known as a 'she-male'...then duck.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 5 September 2012 06:39190057I had one too Kath, but knew straight away it was not genuine and deleted it.
Roger - 5 September 2012 12:26190107Stressing at the time but nothing fortunately was lost or damaged. A whole new set of (generated, complicated) passwords should prevent it happening again !
Thanks for everyone's concern.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 12 September 2013 17:01244444A little reminder of what is possible...
How can I move all my email to a different service?
Q
"More than 10 years ago, I had an internet connection from BT, which came with a btopenworld email address. At some point, BT passed all the management of these email addresses to Yahoo, where they became standard, free (advertising-supported) Yahoo webmail addresses in all but name - run on Yahoo servers, with the Yahoo front end. When my BT Internet contract ended, my BT email service carried on at Yahoo.
All this was fine until BT informed me that it would close the account and delete all my mail, contacts etc from 16 September unless I started to pay them £1.60 a month for a premium mail service I don't want.
Do you think this is ethical behaviour? Should we all stop trusting even large companies running ad-supported cloud-based services because, at any point, they can threaten to delete our data, and make us pay the high costs in time and effort of changing an email address, if we don't pay up? Is there any easy way to avoid being held to ransom, and transfer all my mail and contacts easily from one account to another?
Name withheld."
A
"To answer your last question first: no, you should not trust any cloud-based company, whether large or small, with data that you consider important. If you have files that you must not lose - emails, documents, photographs, whatever - then you and only you are responsible for making sure you don't lose them.
It's a fact of life that small companies become big and big companies become small or go out of business as the technology scene changes. This can happen on relatively short timescales, perhaps five to 20 years, whereas you may want to keep your data for long periods, perhaps 10-50 years. In some cases, you may want your files to outlive you. Examples include family photos and videos, creative works and recordings of original or otherwise unobtainable music...."
Some interesting solutions to many email concerns...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2013/sep/12/how-move-my-email-yahooIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Bob Whysman
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12 September 2013 19:20244453I avoided this conundrum Tom by not using the BT email address, which they provided, when I changed Internet providers. I continued to use an existing email address which I had also used to access my BT telephone account before I took on their broadband.
This also allows me to change providers, should I wish to do so, without further complications. My new computer made me spit feathers for a while as it was running Windows 8 OS; the email client was Microsoft live and meant I had to register with them to receive mail. I got round this by using my existing email address format and associating the POP 3 accounts.
So the same address is recognised by Microsoft and my old POP 3 account provider.
I also included the BT yahoo account just in case BT used it to contact me anytime. I have not given it out to anyone else and so far it all works fine. They pick up my mail from my original Internet provider without any problem.
The only slight niggle is when I pick up mail via my IPad and all three clients pick it up. I just open 1 and delete the other 2 without opening them.
I don't store documents or photo's online as I have a 750 GB Hard Drive and use a flash drive for a rolling back up along with indexed DVD copies as an extra fail safe.
For purchases from Apple I use I tunes cards to avoid registering Credit Card details.
Virus control operates on the router and a separate one on the computer with the installed Rapport programme to check banking and other sensitive sites.
Possibly overkill but it all seems to work fine so far!Do nothing and nothing happens.