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Reporting someone who stole my email address

Anonymous
2020-03-02T12:19:17+00:00

What can I do about a hacker? Somehow he/she has diverted emails sent to my address?

Dozens of friends have received emails from me requesting iTunes gift cards. I knew nothing about this because when they replied it was to a false address. Not mine!

Since Friday I have received nothing from any of those friends. They can get through only on Face Book and text.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T16:12:51+00:00

    I did all that and discovered suspicious activity.

    I instantly signed him/her out and changed my password.

    The problem then arose that none of my friends could access me on the old address.

    Anything they wrote was being diverted to tessatayl0r***[AT]hotmail.com

    This is the hacker.

    So he is now just receiving all my emails.

    I have hundreds of contacts.

    I have set up a new email account with a different password.

    But I'd like my old one back.

    Lots of important stuff has probably been sent since last Friday.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T12:50:32+00:00

    This also applies to Yahoo's account.

    Check your account activity here:

    https://login.yahoo.com/account/activity

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T12:39:05+00:00

    Thank you Timon. That is kind.

    I joined the Microsoft Community only today; a friend recommended that I tell them about the hacking.

    My email account is actually with Yahoo.

    Any other ideas?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T12:26:18+00:00

    Hello, i'm Timon and i'm glad to help you.

    You can check your Microsoft's account activity here: https://account.microsoft.com/security/

    Here you will find some useful information, such as the date your account was accessed, by which device, with which IP address.

    If you find something wrong, i strongly advise you to change your password and recommend to use the two-step verification.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12408/...

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10494/...

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