Marko Vojinovic
vvmarko at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 13:48:51 UTC 2010
On Monday 29 November 2010 12:49:27 Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
> >> http://la-felce.it/index808.php
> >
> > Isn't it time to ban this idiot?
>
> The problem here is that the user's yahoo password has been hacked. I
> have seen this exact same thing with other yahoo, gmail and aol
> addresses. The user needs to change his/her yahoo password to clear
> this up.
That wouldn't be so easy. If the e-mail account has been hijacked, the
hijacker has probably changed the password already, and the user doesn't have
access to his account anymore. He can ask for help from yahoo, but they are
usually unwilling to do anything unless the user can prove his identity and
that the account has actually been hijacked. They also typically refuse to
give help unless the user has a paid support account with yahoo.
I don't know about aol and gmail, but I doubt they are any different from yahoo
in this respect. So unless the user has been paying for e-mail services to
yahoo (and really, why would he ever do that?! ;-) ), he is unlikely to
retreive his password any time soon...
Best, :-)
Marko
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