Private Messages on Hotmail

[doinmummy]

It appears that my Hotmail account is sending private messages to random people of it's own accord. Has anyone else had this?

I think someone's probably hacked it, has it happened since you changed your password?

Are they advertising messages? Have you opened a message from a contact recently that was actually an advert? If you have all you need to do is change your password, that should stop it.

I haven't changed my password and cant remember if I've opened any adverts. My friend has had the same thing happen to her.
I'll changer my password and see if that helps . Thanks all

This happened to me - people kept telling me they were receiving random e-mails from me.

I just changed my password and it stopped

Yup, it's generally nothing more sophisticated than someone using a computer programme to auto-generate passwords and trying them over and over until they get into someone's hotmail account. From there they just keep hitting your whole contacts list with spam. First thing to do whenever you find out this has happened is to change your password, and preferably choose one with a good level of security - so not anything too obvious (your middle name) or a real word (they use a dictionary to keeping trying every word til they get a hit) but something with a mixture of numbers, letters and punctuation. So something like M4msn3t!^