Spam Warning!

[Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018]

Sometime over the holiday my personal email was hacked and it has been sending out spam to a large number of my contacts.

I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that a number of PCS members and PCI members have been sending out spam.

Please watch your personal accounts. They seem to be targeting us for some reason.

 

[Don Wasley]

Change password

Skip, it's a 'bot' that got your email account password. My hotmail account was hacked late last year so I changed my password. That fixed the problem. Use a strong password and it will be much harder to break or retrieve..... When I mean strong, I mean something like this: $k1p-6ou1e7 [skip goulet if you can't figure it]. Using other symbols and numbers besides letters in passwords makes them stronger...

 

[Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018]

Thanks for your suggestions, Don. I have changed the password and the signature. I haven't changed the actual email address, and I'm not sure if that's necessary.

Let me correct a big glaring error! My original post reads like some of our members from both clubs were sending out Spam. What I meant to say is that some of them were also hit with spam as was I. Hope that clarifies things. Sometimes my fingers get ahead of my brain!

 

[Don Wasley]

No, Skip, you don't need to change your email address/account...just the password. Unless your whole email account has been hijacked [someone else has access and is sending out spam from your email address all the time], when this happens, then that's when you need to set up a new email address.

 

[Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018]

No, Skip, you don't need to change your email address/account...just the password. Unless your whole email account has been hijacked [someone else has access and is sending out spam from your email address all the time], when this happens, then that's when you need to set up a new email address.

Well, today, Don, I got back into my account. I changed the password and everything seems to be o.k. But there was another spam attempt on my email, so I deleted it immediately. Don't think there was enough time to do any damage.