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Freud wore slips?

Pierce, Jim has asked me to pass on a message. He informed me that your email may have been compromised as he sent you at least three email and feels that your yahoo email account has been blocked as any emails that you sent are not being received and you are not receiving any emails sent to you.

I have cancelled my yahoo account as about a month ago, I got a message saying that they could not identity my location as it came as the Netherlands and that it has been compromised.

I then added another secret question and answer as well as an signing in image but it did not help and I was told to change my email password, but I did not what my email password was because I did not write it down and it was on remembered on my computer system.

I then changed it several times but when I went to use it (I this time wrote them down) was not being recognised and I could not change my detail via using my secret questions and answers as they had been blocked.

I had to change my password via alternative emails but when I tried to log on it did not either recognise my details or it would try to load and I got a click onto agreement box which I tried to but it froze on me and I went through the same process again in changing password as this is all the help that they would give me.

Oddly enough I get into my yahoo account page which made my interests and avatar picture but could only get to my account via this page and not directly.

After struggling several days to find a proper answers and a place to get my problems dealt I came on to a yahoo page which asked me to copy and paste the image of the page that I was having problems to them via paint pad which I tried to do and did not work and I tried to save the page but it was not being recognised when I tried to send it to yahoo.

I did manage to access my emails but with great difficulty and not knowing how long this was going to work. I sent all my contacts and saved emails and other emails to my other accounts and then cancelled them. This is the second email I have had with yahoo and I don't want to go back as it is too much hassle.

Pierce I forget to add that Jim said it would a lot safer to send emails through you're other email accounts.

hi ptp

looks like the hacker didnt wipe your email, sent you a reply jim

Everything appears to be okay with my Yahoo-account since I changed my password, but I may change to another provider anyway some time soon. I'll let you know

Don't get too excited about getting another account; cos yesterday I noticed some strange emails sent from a paid account.

Its password was

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which I thought was pretty hard to crack.

So somebody cracked the formula instead; implies insider knowledge.

This email costs a bomb; so I'm a bit put out.

They are not all letters and numbers either.

hi ptp

its firms i think that employ the pc hackers to get any emails addys they can, then make it look like you are sending the email, to a freind or even a company. its yhaoo and hotmail i have lost many on, because they blocked me to the people jim

Apart from being hacked from somewehere in Poland which lead to some of my contacts receiving strange mail I haven't had any problems.

And after having changed my password everything now seems to be tickidy-boo so be happy

I started getting email from [email protected] for example; I catch all my email sent and can see these things immediately. Changing my password above seemed to fix it but wonder how long for.

hi ptp

no probs on the spam thing its been clear since you changed the password jim

I'm dyslexic a bit and wot I said above was wrong.

The email I saw was RETURNED by the email system as undeliverable, and was addressed to an alias of my email but somehow ends up in my webmail box, which can send aliases as I found out so can Outlook using any email.I tested it by sending mysel an email from [email protected]

The alias is a forwarding address to prevent recipients from replying.

The originating address according to Whois is India, not England or Pheonix Arizona.

I think somebody in Asia is using my TLD as a dead letter box.