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A professional hacker just

ray marcum — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:37:00 +0000

An unprofessional internet panty sniffer just told me how to spy on my children's phone calls, text messages and their social media accounts which means I'm a creepy sneaky bastard that even my own kids hate and mistrust. i can now monitor their daily activities and also be able to know when they are being misled by anyone, especially ME!. I am happy about this because I'm an asshole, and though I pretend my kids mean the world to me and ever since the death of their mother (how she died, I ain't tellin', nudge nudge, wink wink), i promised to always be there for them not only as a father but also as a mother so as to secure a bright future for them... Note that cringeworthy shadow behind them at every step you take, every move you make. You can contact the devious brain behind the hack at spycryforhelp at gmail dot com for any problems you have that relates to snooping and social voyeurism that you're unable to control in any other fashion.

Thank you, Jane. It's amazing

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:55:22 +0000

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Thank you, Jane. It's amazing that this is still happening 3.5 years after it hit me. Very good point about the recycled email addresses.

Hi, Mike, This is extremely

Jane — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:24:39 +0000

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Hi, Mike,

This is extremely helpful. I've been having this issue. Here's what I know:

1 (800) 318-0631 is the Yahoo! help # I called. Ironically I think I spoke to "Jake." Approximately 1-2 mo ago.

He said there's known malware going after yahoo mail accounts. If you don't log out at night, they access your security questions.

I have only one PC. So I replaced it with another Mac.

Still had the problem.

Ran ClamXav and did find one on my oldest ('06) MacBook. Quarantined it.

Temporarily helped.

Read up and found you should delete Java (which is not same as JavaScript).

Apparently, this software isn't necessary and is the easiest way for letting in malware on a Mac. AND, while java7 is supposed to fix that you have to have a 64-bit browser. Chrome is only 32.

I deleted Java off the new Mac. Need to check the old one and another one.

However, I only have this problem after I email from the old Mac --the one where I found malware. So there may be more malware there.

I am going to delete Norton anything off all my Macs. Others are right. It only hurts.

I'm going to delete all Java (not JavaScript) apps on every computer I own.

BUT I WILL NEVER DELETE THE YAHOO ACCOUNT.

Why? Yahoo is recycling old addresses. So anyone who sends anything to your account (bc they don't have your new email) will be sending it to the NEW owner of your recycled email address.

If it comes to it, I will forward to another email while I arrange to change every place I've ordered from, etc., to go to my new NON yahoo address.

Some of my hacked recipients were not saved as contacts, so that won't help.

I am considering rewriting the oldest ('06) Marc's hard drive. I will if the other steps don't fix it.

I hope this helps someone. It's been a nightmare.

This issue is driving me

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:49:35 +0000

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This issue is driving me nuts. I too have a mac and mainly get spam emails from my own email address, though sometimes the email does go out to others. I've had this address for 8 years and it's linked to business and person stuff so I don't want to delete it. I've run every virus software I can, changed passwords a dozen times, checked the login locations (nothing fishy there), and can only think they have a key logger or alternatively they're just sending email using my email address because it's not actually going FROM my account. In other words, these emails aren't in my outbox, it's just that they've hijacked my email name. Regardless, they suck, I hate them - whoever they are. :(

It is very unsettling to see

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:58:31 +0000

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It is very unsettling to see this same attack has happened over and over and over again and still yahoo has not accepted any responsibility. It is as if they are saying "complain all you want , if you don't like us leave. We are so big and popular that we will just laugh all your complaints off all the way to the bank" Hackers or no as long as we keep putting up with crappy service and you all know yahoo really has a problem with customer service, they will continue to avoid any expense of rectifying any of these issues.

I've skimmed through al the

Talkstr8t — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:51:33 +0000

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I've skimmed through al the responses here and am surprised to see that no one has mentioned the Yahoo account info where you can check locations logged in from. From all the accounts I've seen which have been hacked, you'll find an entry from Romania, Vietnam, Mexico, or another obviously unusual location. To get to this log into my.yahoo.com, click on your login name near the upper left and choose "account info", then click "View your recent sign-in activity". It's astonishing that Yahoo isn't putting extra security in place when a login occurs from someplace never before logged in, especially when it's simultaneous or in close proximity to a login from the usual location.

Hello, Mike!We are happy to

Yahoo Viagra Peddler — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:55:34 +0000

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Hello, Mike!We are happy to inform you that here at Yahoo, we have received a new shipment of Viagra. So now there is no limitation on how many pills you can order for yourself or to share with all your email contacts including ex-girlfriends.

Yahoo has been always proud of it's customer service. Please let us know if you are interested in other products, pills extending your arms, whatever.

Also, since you are a paying customer we would like to inform you of extra security measures we take now for your safety. From now on, if you want to check your outstanding balance you will have to provide a court subpoena. Or simply wait for notices from a collection agency. We hope you will find this as a minor inconvenience.

Jane
Yahoo! Customer Care
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - better than ever! ever, ever, ever...

I too fell for this trap and

Nighthawk — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:59:29 +0000

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I too fell for this trap and everyone in my yahoo email address book was sent the same message after I had gone to bed. It happened on May 22, and I only found out about it the next day when coworkers alerted me to it.

I traced the original email to one I had gotten from a friend the night before. The email was titled "HEY" and I opened it around 10 pm May 22, 2012. It contained nothing else but a link to an article at ww.inews15tn.net/jobs (WARNING: I believe inews.net is the problem, DON'T GO THERE or click any link to it or you could get hacked too. I just checked the 8 emails sent by the hack and they all contain slightly different links like inews115ta or inews15wn, but all being a variation of ww.inews.net).

So, stupidly without suspecting anything malicious, I clicked the link from within that yahoo email and it contained an article about making money at home which I read. I then shut down my computer around 11pm that night and went to bed. The next day ,May 23, at 9am is when I was told by coworkers of my strange emails to them.

I immediately checked my Yahoo sent folder and saw my account had sent 8 email messages all titled "HELLO" ,all at 11:24pm May 22, and spread out amongst the people in my address book. Thank goodness the hacker wasn't smart enough to delete these messages from my sent folder. Today, May 28, I checked my Yahoo recent sign-in activity, however, the info only went as far back as May 24. I should have checked sooner, but I too just discovered this informative blog.

As far as my response to this email hack. On May 23, I copied & pasted all the names from those 8 bogus emails and sent them all warnings to delete any email from me titled "HELLO" and especially not to click the link at the bottom of the email if they had already opened it. Since I don't have an antivirus program, I downloaded and ran AVG antivirus. It detected about 5 Trojan Horse viruses. Since I had already changed my Yahoo password a few days ago, I decided to change it again after AVG removed those viruses.

I have since investigated the suspect URL by right-clicking it and selecting Inspect Element, and then clicking HTML. Near the bottom, this line intrigues me:

form id=metaform , action=http//f1606.mail.yahoo.com/80ws/mail.....appid=YahooMailClassic&wsid...

My question to you computer experts out there is who is f1606? And is this type of hack more susceptible to people, including myself, who use Yahoo Mail classic?

My parents are Mac users, and

Anonymous — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:16:16 +0000

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My parents are Mac users, and they too have this issue where their yahoo mail account has been sending out spam on their behalf. We tried changing passwords, that worked for a while but came back. I've checked their Mac for viruses, found none. Not sure how this issue is occuring.

I'm so happy I found this

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:51:51 +0000

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I'm so happy I found this article. I have had yahoo for over 10 years and last night had something similar happen. I had only checked my email from my phone and my work email...where as the email "spam" was sent out overnight/early this morning. I started contacting friends to let them know and found out a few other yahoo users had this happen to them. So whatever the issue with yahoo security is, it hasn't gotten addressed. It is still a problem over 2 years later. I deleted my account. That was an incredibly embarassing situation. Oh, it wasn't advertising viagra. It was something else (winning/making $ or something)...and the email login originated in Germany.