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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