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The Bankrupt Inn - Part 7

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  • IF
    IF Posts: 34,349 Forumite
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    Morning all.....a small word of caution

    if you receive an email from me about cheap laptops please delete immediatley as its not me & the hotmail account had been hijacked...

    all sorted now though


    Hi Phil, I'm glad it's all sorted now........bloody annoying though!!:(
    "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride"
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    annoying aint the word!..must have been a hell of a brute force hack my passwords are usually pretty secure ones
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • confused76
    confused76 Posts: 12,680 Forumite
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    Morning all.....a small word of caution

    if you receive an email from me about cheap laptops please delete immediatley as its not me & the hotmail account had been hijacked...

    all sorted now though

    whaaat now you tell me? i've bought a laptop and a printer :p

    no worries, ANNOYING!

    am sick of getting those emails from 'banks' saying you need to ring us your account with xxx - i don't have an account with xxx! - anyone else get these?
  • confused76
    confused76 Posts: 12,680 Forumite
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    annoying aint the word!..must have been a hell of a brute force hack my passwords are usually pretty secure ones

    it happened to my mum, i couldn't quite understand at first why my mum was sending me a strange badly spelt broken english email about laptops!!

    have you run your virus software etc?
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    Yep everythings clean....its a password hack thats happened rather than a virus attack
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • confused76
    confused76 Posts: 12,680 Forumite
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    Yep everythings clean....its a password hack thats happened rather than a virus attack

    glad you're sorted now, but how flippin annoying! :mad:
  • IF
    IF Posts: 34,349 Forumite
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    annoying aint the word!..must have been a hell of a brute force hack my passwords are usually pretty secure ones


    That's what's frightening isn't it.........how on earth do they do it!!!
    "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride"
  • IF
    IF Posts: 34,349 Forumite
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    Conf, did you go to the doctor's??
    "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride"
  • confused76
    confused76 Posts: 12,680 Forumite
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    Conf, did you go to the doctor's??

    i went to the old one yesterday, am off to register at the new one after lunch - it's only 400 yards away :eek::rotfl:

    are you ok? x
  • IF
    IF Posts: 34,349 Forumite
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    confused76 wrote: »
    i went to the old one yesterday, am off to register at the new one after lunch - it's only 400 yards away :eek::rotfl:

    are you ok? x

    Sorry I thought you were registering this morning for some reason!! When you register do you see the doctor straight after??
    "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride"
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