GetNetWise » identity theft http://www.getnetwise.org/blog GetNetWise.org Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Seen a friend’s email hijacked? Don’t let it happen to you. http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2010/11/23/seen-a-friends-email-hijacked-dont-let-it-happen-to-you/ http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2010/11/23/seen-a-friends-email-hijacked-dont-let-it-happen-to-you/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:31:50 +0000 GetNetWise http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/?p=109 Spammers and identity thieves have committed a rash of email hijacks lately. Maybe you’ve seen a friend’s email account hacked, sending out unwanted spam. These new email account hijacks are a disturbing twist on an old hack. In most cases users’ email accounts are taken over and used to send out spam. In a new twist identity thieves are using the email accounts to steal passwords and your identity and access online accounts such as Amazon, banks, etc. Often these ID thefts result in the deletion of your email account. Don’t let this happen to you.

K.C. Budd wrote a great set of tips about preventing email account hijacking and posted it on his Facebook page. Don’t be a victim.

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