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Old 02-20-2015, 02:41 PM
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Woke up this morning to an email saying that my account had 5 attempted logins at 2:20 am. Checked the ip address and it's on hacker blacklist coming out of China. Did this happen to anyone else?
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Old 02-20-2015, 02:44 PM
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Old 02-20-2015, 02:53 PM
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Personally I would never even consider any e-mail with that kind of message as no reputable site would be sending an e-mail to advise such a thing IMO.
I just automatically junk anything like that.
Even if it reportedly comes from a site I am a member of, I certainly won't click on any links, as I continually get e-mails proportedly from someone I know or a site I'm a member of, but if fact the info showing is false.
If concerned, I'd click on my Norton 360 to see if anything was really happening.
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The email is a valid warning from our board. Hackers in China are attempting to gain access to user's accounts by guessing passwords.
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:20 PM
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How does one know if an e-mail is actually from you or from some fraudulent site?
Was the e-mailing you sent out just a selective membership?
I didn't receive anything other than a "junk" e-mail proportedly from Apple with a sender listed as ----.on.microsoft.com.
Same message that I've had hacking attempts.
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:47 PM
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The email is sent to the account holder that has had their account tampered with. It's just a warning, and has no links. I think you're misunderstanding the issue.
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Lol...
WHY?
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:55 PM
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Lol...
WHY?
Same reason they try to sign up with spammer accounts, post things like iphone ads, etc. They get paid some amount for every link they post. I've gotten very good at filtering them at sign up (sometimes 30 per day) and now I guess they want to try existing accounts.

Just make sure you have a complex password, should be fine.
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:58 PM
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So they are not trying to steel my reef secrets or plagiarize my sarcastic PM's?

That's a relief.
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Old 02-20-2015, 04:21 PM
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So they are not trying to steel my reef secrets or plagiarize my sarcastic PM's?

That's a relief.
Nobody could replicate your style, we'd be onto them in a second!!
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