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[Technology] My password



Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,486
Brighton
I've just received one of those 'we have videoed what you were doing' emails. As I get a couple a day it's not a worry, plus I have very high end paid for security (and my camera is covered).
I use different email addresses for different websites so I know where they come from. This is from myspace but others come from hotel websites and other sites that I've used a specific email address. I've never got anything using my facebook, twitter or NSC address.
Anyway, the difference with this email is that it has told me my password. PANIC sets in and I'm changing all my passwords.
The only thing I don't have is a VPN. Can I get something installed on my router?
 






The Camel

Well-known member
Nov 1, 2010
1,519
Darlington, UK
I've just received one of those 'we have videoed what you were doing' emails. As I get a couple a day it's not a worry, plus I have very high end paid for security (and my camera is covered).
I use different email addresses for different websites so I know where they come from. This is from myspace but others come from hotel websites and other sites that I've used a specific email address. I've never got anything using my facebook, twitter or NSC address.
Anyway, the difference with this email is that it has told me my password. PANIC sets in and I'm changing all my passwords.
The only thing I don't have is a VPN. Can I get something installed on my router?

I got the same email last week.

I use three levels of password, one for forums (such as NSC), one which is more complicated for emails/facebook/twitter, and then one which is very complicated for credit cards and banks.

The password they had was the weakest one, but it still freaked me out somewhat.
 


Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
55,575
Back in Sussex
You've not been compromised in any way, the chances are a site you have used at some point has been, and the bad guys have accessed that email/password data and are using it in quite a creative way.

Pop your email address in here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see the site(s) likely responsible.
 




larus

Well-known member
I've just received one of those 'we have videoed what you were doing' emails. As I get a couple a day it's not a worry, plus I have very high end paid for security (and my camera is covered).
I use different email addresses for different websites so I know where they come from. This is from myspace but others come from hotel websites and other sites that I've used a specific email address. I've never got anything using my facebook, twitter or NSC address.
Anyway, the difference with this email is that it has told me my password. PANIC sets in and I'm changing all my passwords.
The only thing I don't have is a VPN. Can I get something installed on my router?

Have a read of this.

https://www.howtogeek.com/221889/connect-your-home-router-to-a-vpn-to-bypass-censorship-filtering-and-more/
 










Peteinblack

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jun 3, 2004
3,582
Bath, Somerset.
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/new-scam-password-bitcoin-porn/

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Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
49,989
Goldstone
I use different email addresses for different websites so I know where they come from.
Impressive (although a bit of a ball-ache). Make sure you have a different password for each too.

The only thing I don't have is a VPN. Can I get something installed on my router?
If you have an important email address, just keep that away from the websites. Not sure you need to do much more than that.
 






Wardy's twin

Well-known member
Oct 21, 2014
8,402
What difference does it make? It was all virtual value that will return soon.



EDIT: Sorry, shouldn't have been so irritable. Thank you for the correction. I have corrected it above.

thats ok ... stating its was 16 billion was to emphasise how crazy things are.
 










Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
24,721
Worthing
Once you’ve already been caught w.anking looking at weird sex by your friends and your mum, these emails mean nothing.

Trust me.
 


Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Patreon
Apr 5, 2014
23,379
I once tracked down one of these emails and even found their FB profile. They can be pretty dumb.
 




dejavuatbtn

Well-known member
Aug 4, 2010
7,128
Henfield
I reported the same scam to the City of London police and mentioned it on here last week. They too had picked up on of my passwords which makes it a bit scarier. I dread to think of the damage they could inflict if they got hold of a bank’s confidential data.
It does remind folk to change passwords from time to time but these people are are real pain in the ars*.
 


The Camel

Well-known member
Nov 1, 2010
1,519
Darlington, UK
You've not been compromised in any way, the chances are a site you have used at some point has been, and the bad guys have accessed that email/password data and are using it in quite a creative way.

Pop your email address in here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see the site(s) likely responsible.

What a good site.

Seems like it was bloody linkedin. What a tragic decision of mine to ever join. Spam emails by the bucketload, now very likely to have compromised my details.

Scumbags,
 



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