Comments on: How can I remove my user name and password from an identity thief? http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/how-can-i-remove-my-user-name-and-password-from-an-identity-thief/ Identity Theft - Keep Your Identity For Yourself Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tracy L http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/how-can-i-remove-my-user-name-and-password-from-an-identity-thief/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Tracy L Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:44:49 +0000 http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/527/how-can-i-remove-my-user-name-and-password-from-an-identity-thief/#comment-290 Well, you have been hit by what is commonly known as a phising site! They send emails or IMs from what appears to be someone you know (Even your Bank, Credit Card Company, etc) so that you will click a link and reveal information about yourself. (These really are not from the person that it says they are from NOT AT ALL!) Rule 1. NEVER click a link in an email or IM unless you know for a FACT where it came from. Rule 2. Never click a link in an email or IM even if you know where it came from! Phishing (you can search that) is very common, very dangerous, and is not quickly fixed. So just don't fall for it! Now as to how you can FIX it. Log on to your hotmail account and CHANGE THE PASSWORD NOW! Don't wait, don't even get coffee. Use a real password not words etc... Try this Take a sentance "I have been had by 1 Site which now has my Password and Username from HotMail it happened 2 day." Make it a password "Ihbhb1SwnhmPaUfHih2d" all you have to do is remember the sentance! That password is not easily cracked and will stop whatever the fishing site wants to do with your Password! Change it NOW! And Never trust links - go directly to sites that you know! ANd if You do click a LINK Never reveal account infromation from that link period! Oh, and the worst that will happen from this, is lots of SPAM directed to your published email.. don't even think of clicking links to remove, all that does is confirm the email address is valid thus allowing more spam! ADDED: OK, if you have changed your password with a GOOD password, relax.. they can't do anything with just an email address. Its not ID theft.. ID theft would need your name, address, birth date, tax id information, and much more. If none of that is on your email address just take a deep breath. Your fine.. like I said the worst that can happen is you will start receiving SPAM which hotmail will filter! This really is no worse than signing up for a newsletter or entering your email address to win a drawing! (They usually don't ask for your password, and if that password is changed what difference does it make?) Well, you have been hit by what is commonly known as a phising site! They send emails or IMs from what appears to be someone you know (Even your Bank, Credit Card Company, etc) so that you will click a link and reveal information about yourself. (These really are not from the person that it says they are from NOT AT ALL!)

Rule 1. NEVER click a link in an email or IM unless you know for a FACT where it came from.
Rule 2. Never click a link in an email or IM even if you know where it came from!

Phishing (you can search that) is very common, very dangerous, and is not quickly fixed. So just don’t fall for it!
Now as to how you can FIX it.
Log on to your hotmail account and CHANGE THE PASSWORD NOW! Don’t wait, don’t even get coffee.
Use a real password not words etc… Try this
Take a sentance "I have been had by 1 Site which now has my Password and Username from HotMail it happened 2 day." Make it a password
"Ihbhb1SwnhmPaUfHih2d" all you have to do is remember the sentance! That password is not easily cracked and will stop whatever the fishing site wants to do with your Password!

Change it NOW! And Never trust links – go directly to sites that you know! ANd if You do click a LINK Never reveal account infromation from that link period!

Oh, and the worst that will happen from this, is lots of SPAM directed to your published email.. don’t even think of clicking links to remove, all that does is confirm the email address is valid thus allowing more spam!

ADDED: OK, if you have changed your password with a GOOD password, relax.. they can’t do anything with just an email address. Its not ID theft.. ID theft would need your name, address, birth date, tax id information, and much more. If none of that is on your email address just take a deep breath. Your fine.. like I said the worst that can happen is you will start receiving SPAM which hotmail will filter!

This really is no worse than signing up for a newsletter or entering your email address to win a drawing! (They usually don’t ask for your password, and if that password is changed what difference does it make?)

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