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Whoever did this took years worth of my sent mail and e-mail contacts, leaving my "passwords" folder alone, thank goodness! They opened a bogus account that was like mine--only Yahoo instead of SBC global--and copied my signature, but putting in a non-operational phone number. I'm not sure how they could get in and do those things without getting into my account. If they didn't figure out the password, or how to bypass it, then how did they access all of these things?
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You can set up a phony account, fake a signature, and harvest a bunch of email addresses from a single bulk email message. No password is necessary. If you pass on internet messages to a bunch of people, you should always use BCC, not CC.
However, you should check your computer for malware, and report the fraudulent email address to Yahoo.
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You can set up a phony account, fake a signature, and harvest a bunch of email addresses from a single bulk email message. No password is necessary. If you pass on internet messages to a bunch of people, you should always use BCC, not CC.
However, you should check your computer for malware, and report the fraudulent email address to Yahoo. I think that's what happened. The fraudulent address has been reported and removed. I needed to go a couple of levels deep in tech support for that one!
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You might want to try what I do. I just each each of the Seven Dwarves from the movie Snow White as my passwords. 
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Just make sure that the password you are checking structurally is not an actual password you use. I would not trust any random person from India with my actual passwords. For the record I`ve used a simple password for everything from 1985-2005 and never had a problem. I made them more complicated after that out of paranoia. Kees
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Just make sure that the password you are checking structurally is not an actual password you use. I would not trust any random person from India with my actual passwords. Kees Bingo, Yahtzee! edit: Kees, I've always been leery of those password checker sites. For one thing, they tie the password to your ip address. Not good.
Last edited by Loren D; 05/23/12 07:31 AM.
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Just got a message today from someone who died about 6 months ago!
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Just got a message today from someone who died about 6 months ago! Really? Today is my lucky day. Turns out I'm the lone heir of a Nigerian prince. Who knew?
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I always thought your name sounded a bit African.... Me, I'm Irish.
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