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Hotmail account hacked?

  • 10-03-2025 12:12PM
    #1
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,989 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering, I have received an e-mail with my name and e-mail address to my own hotmail account stating that my account has been hacked, along with some other threatening words. It even bears my own e-mail address as the sender.

    However in the sent folder there is no indication that it has been sent from my account.

    What kind of scam is this? Has anybody encountered this as well? Has my hotmail account really been hacked and somebody is sending messages in my name? - As there isn't anything in the send folder, there is no indication it has been sent from my account, unless somebody deleted that?



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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,078 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    It's an old and well known scam. They just scrape emails and passwords from various leaks and spam them in the hopes of catching a few that haven't changed their passwords.



  • #3
    beerpong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭beerpong


    SMTP (email) is just a text based protocol with no real verification. Someone sent you a mail and made the from field with your email address, this is an easy thing to do.

    Your email has not been hacked , they are trying to fool you into thinking it has so you click on links / ring for support.



  • #4
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,989 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123250185#Comment_123250185

    Thanks for that.



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