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Private Messages on Hotmail

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doinmummy · 05/08/2012 16:54

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

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tribpot · 05/08/2012 16:54

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

Schlock · 05/08/2012 16:55

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.

doinmummy · 05/08/2012 19:20

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

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ceebeegeebies · 05/08/2012 19:24

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

I just changed my password and it stopped Smile

tribpot · 05/08/2012 19:51

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!^

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