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Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 03:49 PM Jan 2012

E-mail hacking. Someone ought to come up with an alert service.

Something that monitors every E-mail address you have, and sends you a daily log of what is coming and going in your name.

I had an unused account hacked and used for spamming. My bad in the first place, because I stopped using it 8-9 months ago, but didn't want to entirely get rid of it because I had a lot of websites registered with that as the e-mail link. And, I'm really bad at keeping up with all of these sites, passwords, etc. Just easier, I thought, to let it coast.


I got out of the habit of even looking at it several months ago.

Then, I got a "Terms of Service Violation" notice from AOL about it -- someone or some thing (virus?) had hacked it and was sending tons of spam of various kinds.

So, computer science types, please invent a service that monitors someone's e-mail addresses and websites and makes a daily security report in an easy to read, convenient format.

Of course, if this already exists, just ignore my entire rant. TIA.


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E-mail hacking. Someone ought to come up with an alert service. (Original Post) Denninmi Jan 2012 OP
I had 305 "Delivery Notification Failure" emails in my throwaway hotmail acct this morning MrCoffee Jan 2012 #1

MrCoffee

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1. I had 305 "Delivery Notification Failure" emails in my throwaway hotmail acct this morning
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jan 2012

I think I'm having the exact same problem as you.

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