How to stop similar acct at hotmail.com which hackers set up to receive my reply mail which friends send me?

[petiteMaster075]

Discovered from a friend that my replied mail from friends is going to dirkteach@hotmail.com box which the hackers set up and coded my reply mail to route to there to try and fleece information out of my friends! How do I get Yahoo to communicate with Hotmail execs to:1) get my mail back into my yahoo acct so I can see it? Stop the hack routing so my reply mail will come to my yahoo acct? To find out who set up the alternate hotmail acct so they can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for fraud!

[Kittysue]

You can stop the mail from forwarding from your Inbox, go to to the top right next to where it says Dear [your name] and click on the settings button the Mail Options
Then on the menu on the left click on POP & Forwarding
and make sure your mail is not being forwarded to another address

To get your mail back you have to fill out a Mail Restore Form but you only have 48 hours to do this before all mail is permanently deleted from Yahoo's server
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/cl...store.html you only have 48 hours to restore lost mail
Fill out a Contacts Restore http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contact...store.html

Also do all of the following to protect your privacy and identity
- Go to Options > Mail Options > POP & Forwarding to make sure your emails are not all being forwarded to the hacker’s address
- make sure the alternate email address is still yours and you have a security question and answer set
- until you get your Contacts back find some other way to reach them - Facebook, twitter, text, etc -- to inform them that your account was hacked. They will be getting an email from the scammer claiming to be you needing to borrow money for some emergency
- if you used your same username and password for ANY other site, you need to immediately change all of those accounts. Unfortunately 80% of people use the same username and password for everything. Hackers know this and once they know your email login they'll try those same details on Facebook, Paypal, Twitter, Linkedin, Amazon, EBay, every major bank and credit card company, etc to try and hack those accounts as well
- if your emails contained ANY financial information (Paypal receipts, online banking statement, credit card bills, et) you need to IMMEDIATELY inform these institutions. You will have to freeze your bank and credit card accounts and get new account numbers and cards sent to you. Set up a new email address to change your Paypal account. These hackers will go through all of your emails to see if there is anything they can use to steal your money and identity
- also consider filing a fraud alert with the credit bureaus -- read the FTC website http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/id...mised.html

You didn't get an email recently that looked like it was from Yahoo asking you to verify or update your account, or that your account had exceeded its limits, or that there was suspcious activity did you? That was not from Yahoo, that was a phishing scam


Yahoo can't tell you who set up the account. If you want to prosecute someone you have to file a police report. The police will have to get a court order to subpoena Yahoo and Hotmail's records to find the person who scammed you - this information cannot be released without a court order

But if the scammers are overseas, which they normally are, then law enforcement can't do anything as their jurisdiction does not extend overseas