Over the last week my Yahoo inbox has remained empty and i know for a fact i should have had emails over the last few days, and i have sent myself one today from a different account, but never received it.

Has anyone else had similar problems and managed to resolve them?

(Spam filter has not been altered by the way.)

Yahoo has been fine for me, its my main email account. Sorry that's absolutely no help to you

No probs.

I have found out that i can send email, but not receive it, even when i reply directly to that account.

Its more annoying because i'm overseas so i'm not receiving emails from family and friends, and my internet banking is registered to that address and i need to log into my acount, but have forgotten the password, so guess where the reminder is going... :(

I've contacted Yahoo so hopefully i will get a response soon.

But surely you'd not receive the response from Yahoo? :(

But surely you'd not receive the response from Yahoo? :(

Unless i was smart enough to provide the other email address....

Response received from yahoo, and after following their helpfull advice, i managed to find out why i've not been getting my mail.

Some **** has hacked my account and set up my email to divert to their email address.

So if anyone on here knows this email addy: [email protected] be aware of them hacking your email and taking your details.

Unless i was smart enough to provide the other email address....

Response received from yahoo, and after following their helpfull advice, i managed to find out why i've not been getting my mail.

Some **** has hacked my account and set up my email to divert to their email address.

So if anyone on here knows this email addy: [email protected] be aware of them hacking your email and taking your details.

Any idea how this was done?

Probably by guessing your 'memorable question' (or similar). Logging in, changing the question and your original password. Then re-directing mail. That's usually how it's done on services like this, or Hotmail etc.

Or you had a really easy password, and that was cracked.

Steve

Any idea how this was done?

Wish i knew.

I haven't opened any email i don't know, and i don't know that email addy so i have no idea how it got my details, but password is now changed and i'm trying to find out who it is and how it was done.

The lucky thing for me is that halifax online banking only send 4 digits of a password to your email, the other 3 are given to you on the reminder page, so whoever hacked my details didn't get the full password, thank god.

Worth keeping an eye on your email accounts!

Well this got interesting today.

I punched that hotmail account into my MSN contacts last night, and today the contact (Susan) sends me a message saying 'hi'

I reply asking who she is, and she says she is interested about the item on ebay she is bidding for. I don't sell on ebay so i told her that i wanted to know who she was and where she is from, and i got a reply saying 'UK' although the profile for her username suggests otherwise:

Susan M's Details - Windows Live

And the spelling and grammar makes me beleive that she is most likely a foreign scammer too.

So i ask why my email is being forwarded to her, and she replys 'oh, is that you?' and then says that if i send her 200$ (thats how she worded it) she would send me my email.

After politely telling her a new phrase for going forth to multiply, i pointed out that most if it is SPAM anyway and she was welcome to it, and with that she signed out or most likely blocked me.

So here i am now wondering what to do next. My banking details and passwords for anything that might involve money or purchasing have had passwords changed, so i think i'm covered, so can i report this, and if so who to? Or should i just take my own revenge by finding a way of sending SPAM to that account?

I wouldn't bother with revenge planning. What does that solve?

Contact Yahoo with the info above, and get control of your email account back. Have you thought any more about the security breaches that may have occurred, as per my previous post?

Steve

"Revenge" will only drive this person (who obviously isn't all that stupid) to cause you more problems. If they can take control of your e-mail it's likely they can take control of your Briskoda account (ok, not critical, but an example) and get you a reputation here...

I'd say try to regain control of your e-mail account and just get on with life

By the way the same thing happened to me 3 years ago with an old hotmail account I had. I ended up:

- Ditching hotmail

- Changing my main password to a 15 digit "super secure" (inc. random characters) password

- Using really really obscure randomly thought up "Secret Questions" that no-one in their right mind could ever guess the answer to..

- Using "password manager" and a "master password" in my web browser (Firefox 3)

Cheers guys.

I always had access to my email account, but the incoming emails were being forwarded to this person, so i was unaware of it for a while.

Passwords are now changed and more secure.

Revenge is pointless, so i'll not bother but it is very tempting. Just glad that i don't have important info in that account.

And presume you've also removed the forward?!

:P

And presume you've also removed the forward?!

:P

Ummmm, yes but i thought this was too obvious to bother writing about :P

If you kept an IM log, then you'd have enough to report to the police for blackmail

The problem is, the 'blackmailer' wasn't speeding so i doubt it would get any response.

Contact the cyber crime division of your local force. They're having a big push on this ATM.

Well, if we all have a concerted effort at putting that email address into loads of mail forwarding sites, possibly dodgy ones?

Contact the cyber crime division of your local force. They're having a big push on this ATM.

But as i say in my 2nd post, i'm not at home right now so thats fairly difficult.

Well, if we all have a concerted effort at putting that email address into loads of mail forwarding sites, possibly dodgy ones?

Its a good idea, but to be honest i can't really be bothered.

But its worth keeping an eye on your email account if things seem odd.