PinkJade
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2007
I know this doesn't really pertain to this board, but I am having a hard time finding anyone that knows anything about this and hoped maybe someone could help.
Yesterday my Yahoo! account was hacked into and they sent messages to several of the people in my address book (but not all of them). The email was something along the lines that I was in Nigeria for a work conference and all of my money got stolen and I needed $812 to get home and could they help. There wasn't a link or anything in the email and I can't figure out the purpose of sending it.
I was able to contact Yahoo! by telephone and get the information that was changed fixed and get a new password.
Does anyone know how they could have gotten into my account, why they sent the email, if I should close the account, or if there is anything else I need to worry about?
I scanned the computer for virus and there are none and I have the most up to date VirusScan and Firewall.
Thank you so much.
Yesterday my Yahoo! account was hacked into and they sent messages to several of the people in my address book (but not all of them). The email was something along the lines that I was in Nigeria for a work conference and all of my money got stolen and I needed $812 to get home and could they help. There wasn't a link or anything in the email and I can't figure out the purpose of sending it.
I was able to contact Yahoo! by telephone and get the information that was changed fixed and get a new password.
Does anyone know how they could have gotten into my account, why they sent the email, if I should close the account, or if there is anything else I need to worry about?
I scanned the computer for virus and there are none and I have the most up to date VirusScan and Firewall.
Thank you so much.