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Originally Posted by Patty55
About a year ago I received an bogus email from my sister (using her real email address)claiming she was in Spain and needed $2500. I knew she wasn't in Spain, called her, they had sent it to all her contacts and she was unable to access her email account to send a followup because of the hacking.
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The same folks did that to me as well. Folks called from all over the country to see if all was well. I couldn't access my e-mail or Facebook accounts. Had a man come to clean things up for me...it was a mess. He said true hackers have a system that scrolls which eventually will pull up true e-mail addresses. This is the reason, he said, to try to place numbers and symbles, lower and upper case letters in our e-mail addresses and our passwords to make them difficult to crack. He also told us that the trolls will have websites that look like legit ones where somehow that grabs our info. In my case it was the holidays and I was shopping online...or at least was scoping out sites (I hadn't ordered anything). It was a HUGE pain to correct!!!