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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
I didn't get a private message on TOTV, only the email in my private yahoo account. So it appears TOTV has been hacked. Beware of emails you open everyone.
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It is more likely that your Yahoo account has been hacked and not TOTV. The hackers get more by going after Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail that they would ever get from TOTV.
Here is how it works. They hack in your account by either using brute force or maybe getting information that you have on a social media site like Facebook. Once they get into your e-mail account they can either run a bot (a robot program) to look at all the e-mail headers. The bot program cares less about the content of the e-mails and are more interested in collecting e-mail addresses. Once they get a few good hits they add then to their database and make a mass mailing to every address or header that they have. This database will continue to grow like a ponzi scheme.
Another thing the bot programs can do is search your e-mails for key words such as account, bank, transfer, money, and deposit. The bot will flag that e-mail for a closer look and that may be a doorway to your bank accounts.
Best thing to do is change the password on your e-mail account and make it a strong password. Use upper and lower case and mix in some numbers. also don't use things like your dog's name (that you may have pictures of on Facebook) and your house number as that is too easy to crack.
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