Mail ac hacked

[jambo]

Well it happened to me last night at 10 according to my ac details from you guessed it Nigeria! Seems I being held at gunpoint in Madrid and £2500 is all they want. I have essentials suite on pc and they still got thru. Now left with no contacts list swines didn't copy just lifted.
Apologies to anyone on here that has recd an email.
Anybody any suggestions to what better security measures I could put in
Disgruntled J

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[rigi36]

What email provider?

[Peter_C]

Change your password immediately. Use a capital letter and a couple of numbers in your password at the least.

Quite opening mail and clicking on links you shouldn't be opening. If your buddy sends you a link and it is suspicious, well don't open it, as their mail probably got hacked.

[Leapy]

Is your contacts list lifted from your pc or from your email service providers server?

[rigi36]

Also - don't use hotmail.

[jambo]

Hi guys thanks for replies. to answer the two questions BT and I think it was from the bt contacts list that sits on the BT home page, I do not keep another list.
Tx
J

[Leapy]

Originally Posted by jambo

Hi guys thanks for replies. to answer the two questions BT and I think it was from the bt contacts list that sits on the BT home page, I do not keep another list.
Tx
J

That's exactly what happened to me some years back. So, your pc is safe, it's the BT server that was compromised by some twat getting your password. Microsoft Essentials only protects your pc.

I won't use web based email. I suck them all down to the Mac/pc then they're all behind the firewall/virus protection et al.

Change your password as said before ... Letters, capitals, numbers and punctuation.

[willk]

Damn! So I'm down £5000!

[jambo]

Tax Leapy I am not a computer expert so can you explain what you meant by web based and duck them behind on pc. I didn't send Pm just incase
Ta
B

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[Dan Gurney]

Use Password safe: Password Safe

Use a different password for every account and Password safe will generate you an alphanumeric password (including caps and symbols if the site supports them) for each account/site it then secures them in an encrypted file which you can keep on a USB drive on your keyring (with a backup somewhere else in case you lose it!). You then only need to remember one password, the one that you use to access the encrypted file, but you have a different strong password for every publicly accessible account you use.

Leapy's solution of not using web-based services is good too but you need to make sure that a) you have a good backup solution in place and b) you aren't fussed about having access to it anywhere other than at home/in the office (delete as appropriate).

[Poly]

Clamchoweder - no need for Password Safe (which means all your passwords are only as secure as your primary password, and you probably can't get your mail if you forget the magic device).

First think of a memorable sentence:

Jambo keeps his Ribcraft in Tayvallich!

Take the first letters JkhRiT add the exclamation mark JkhRiT!
then add say the first three letters of the site you are using, e.g. rib.net would be rib
JkhRiT!rib and finish with a memorable number JkhRiT!rib13 and you have a password which will be different for each site, is pretty much impossible to guess, and extremely difficult to hack with a brute force approach. If one account gets hacked then your others will not etc... but doesn't need you to put any trust in a third party or carry any special equipment.

[jambo]

Poly tx for that. Although i have changed my password some hours ago I still cannot access my emails either on PC or Iphone.

[Dan Gurney]

Originally Posted by Poly

Clamchoweder - no need for Password Safe (which means all your passwords are only as secure as your primary password, and you probably can't get your mail if you forget the magic device).

You do need to have it with you if you want to access stuff 'on the move', granted. But it's not just "as secure as your primary password", since the you also have control of the location of the file. It's not available for brute force hacking to anyone who hasn't compromised your storage location.

I like your system though, either would be fine.

[Leapy]

Originally Posted by jambo

Tax Leapy I am not a computer expert so can you explain what you meant by web based and duck them behind on pc. I didn't send Pm just incase
Ta
B

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[kerny]

I got your email Billy, good job I saw your post on here I was just about to send you the money.

[hadd]

Originally Posted by kerny

I got your email Billy, good job I saw your post on here I was just about to send you the money.

I got the email as well ,i've had that email once before few yrs back.

[willk]

Originally Posted by kerny

I got your email Billy, good job I saw your post on here I was just about to send you the money.

Yeah, me too. I gave them £5k to off him and send me the keys of the Ribcraft. Bu@@er!

[jambo]

Great to know who your friends are! Sorry all round. BTW mr W my RC is worth far more than £5K.
Cheers to you all and have a nice festive time remember the Malts

[willk]

FWIW - I didn't actually GET Billy's email - it was held back by POSTINI as spam (I DO get his other mail though) so a resounding thumbs up for Postini!

[jambo]

Originally Posted by willk

FWIW - I didn't actually GET Billy's email - it was held back by POSTINI as spam (I DO get his other mail though) so a resounding thumbs up for Postini!

Looking at the site is it only for business?