I had a great weekend at the beach actually was 88 degrees on the beach. But on Saturday morning I recieved several phone calls from friends about receiving an email from me.
The subject line was I need Assistance, here is the email:
How`s the weekend going? Hope everything`s alright. I need you to help me out with something. Can i get a loan from you very urgently? I`ll reimburse you under a week, i promise. I need to solve some personal problems at hand, which have been giving me great worries. I`d also prefer if we discuss this issue only through email as i am presently in England for a Job. I`m sorry if i didn`t inform you about it, but pls try and understand.
I`ll let you know how much i need if you are willing to assist. Thanks, Nikki
Crazy hu? Well then I found out later that my hotmail account which I've had for 10 years had been hijacked, taken over. I could not even sign on to my account, they changed the password, secret question and answer, etc. I have learned a hard, valuable lesson and this is probably the beginning. I have important information in the email folders.
I have realized how stupid it was to leave some of the information in my hotmail account now. Since hotmail is a free account there is no customer service person to call. The bad thing is you have to fill out this long drawn out form to possibly prove you are the account owner. Which I have done 2 times now, still no response. I am mad and upset over this and the hacker/hijacker has extremely important information about me, and probably my SS# also.
I reported this to the government Internet Crime Complaint Center. I think this was also in the news last week. So I am done with the hotmail accounts and I will probably never see some of the files I kept in the email, some I backed-up others I didn't.
This is just a warning to let people know about what is going on out there in cyberspace.
The person asked my friends to wire money to a western union in London. Be careful on the web and changed your password often! I will let you know in the future what comes out of my situation.
Have a great day!
Nikki
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