ignore spam emails

[mjolnir_retriever]

Hello everybody! Uh, if you got an email from my Yahoo email account with a subject line like "Urgent" or "Urgent: FYI" or something, please ignore it! My account got hacked. I caught it pretty fast, and I've changed my password, but they seem to have sent a blast out to a huge swath of my contacts list first. Sorry about that!

Comments

[yinyangwizard]

Was it one of those "I'm stuck in a foreign country and need you to wire me money" scams?

[mjolnir_retriever]

No, it was an "Urgent: please look at this urgent document!" phishing scam. Bleh.

[sunbaked_baker]

Yeah, I read the email and thought it looked like a hack, so I deleted it.

[cottoncandypink]

I'm not sure what it is about Yahoo, but they seem to be really bad for security. I've never had any of my Gmails taken over, but my Yahoo got taken over twice. :/