eMail account hacked..

Paul Steinberg

PCS Life Member Past President 2010-2012 2020-2024
Staff member
Super Site Supporter
Over the past year, a number of our members have had their email accounts hacked, and don't know how it happened. Below is a "sample" email that will explain how hackers get your password. This is just one of many ways that internet thieves get information.
Account Maintainance,

An HTK4S virus has been detected in your E-mail folders because your email has exceeded its storage limits which is 20GB as set by administrator you may no longer be able to received some 101kb mails. Your email account therefore requires verification for continuous activity or you may not be able to send or receive new mail. So your email account has to be upgraded to our new faculty F-Secure R HTK4S anti-virus/anti-Spam version 2011 to prevent damage to our account login and your important files. You are required to upgrade before the next 24 hours of receipt of this email or your info will be erased and De-activated from our database.

You will have to fill and this link below to keep your E-mail Account active

http://www.formxxxxxxx.com/phpFormGenerator/use/database/form1.html

We apologies for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period.

Warning!!! Web Mail Account owners are expected to update their accounts within 24hrs, after receipt of this notice. Failure to do this will immediately render your account deactivated from our database and service will not be interrupted as important messages may as well be lost due to your declining to re-confirm to us your account details. We apologies for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period, but trusting that we are here to serve you better and providing more technology which revolves around Secured Email.

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