Some thieving chiselling twatter stole my Hotmail account the other day.
Yes, I was hijacked.
It left me feeling abused and defenceless.
No, not really, it just pissed me off. I think the worst think about cyber theft is the whole faceless offender aspect. What I mean is that if you are robbed in the street at least you have an actual physical person to blame it on. If you are fortunate, you can even catch the person and break some of their limbs.
Ok, I accept that you are in no danger of any physical harm from cyber crime – unless they use your credit card to buy porn, and the wife thinks your ‘cyber-thief’ alibi is bullshit and breaks your testicles. That would be bad – but the chances are that any online crime will result in mental anguish alone.
No Honour Among Thieves
Still, it is not acceptable. In fact, it is quite worrying. To think that some absolute fucker from Nigeria can steal your identity and card details, and then buy himself three pairs of Nike Air Max and a Reebok tracksuit from eBay – it’s the stuff of nightmares.
Especially if the bastard doesn’t leave any positive feedback for the seller…..
You selfish Nigerian twat, everyone knows that feedback is reciprocal! Now, not only am I £150 out of pocket, I am STILL 3 feedbacks short of a gold star.
I understand you’re a dishonest stealing helmet but there is no need whatsoever to be a complete arse about it. It wouldn’t have taken you a minute to add a nice comment or two, now you have totally fucked me over and I don’t even have a gold eBay rating to show for it……..you self-centred tosspot.
Anyway, I digress. This is about my stolen email account – not my previous eBay troubles.
Email Theft
Actually, it wasn’t so bad. My girlfriend asked me why I had sent her an odd email telling her about some really good site to buy stuff from. I hadn’t, so I checked my account and sure enough, the same email was present in my sent messages folder and had been sent to all my contacts. Not that was necessarily a bad thing, I had not cleared my contacts list for a while and some of the names in there were companies and odd people that I had grievances with via email. Maybe there was a silver lining and one of them opened the spam and got a virus!
Sadly that was doubtful, as I think the message was just some lowlife trying to earn affiliate commission.
Still, the wanker had my email account and if he sent shit loads of messages I could be hit with a spam complaint and I had owned that email for 10 years. Thieving spam boy could fuck off……it was mine.
Although the unlucky fuckwit had stolen the wrong account really…..most of my friends are complete tight-arses, he had fuck all chance of making a sale. I am surprised I didn’t receive abusive emails back from them telling me to do one and stop harassing them with shit.
An Easy Cure
The solution to my problem was simple really, I changed my password and since then all has been fine. I was concerned how he had gotten my password until the other day…..
I noticed a weird email from my girlfriend; the email was advertising a place to get a cheap iPod!
We checked her account and low and behold, someone had hacked her email and sent that message to everyone in her contacts. I got her to change her password and no more dodgy spam BUT…..her contact list has been wiped and for a while she couldn’t receive and incoming mail!
Bloody Hotmail!
I have my suspicions that Hotmail are not entirely innocent in all of this. There is no way anyone could have got my girlfriends password via my account. I think there has been some form of security breach at Hotmail so if you have one of their accounts I would keep a close eye on your sent messages.
Blimey, this almost counts as an educational, informative post. Bollocks.