Follow Up form hotmail account being hacked

G18241 · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:03

The swine has spent nearly £400 on my gf's card before we could get it cancelled, all at a website called www.clickandbuy.com, mostly for sums of £30 at a time, causing her to go £200 into her overdraft

have emailed the company involved, rang the bank again, still trying to get the MSN account back and hopefully have caught him off guard to have emails in there or soemthing with his details on that he has not deleted.

Luckily the mortgage and bills comes out of my account, and she gets paid weekly, so beans on toast it is for a few weeks, or until we can at least get the money back

basmic · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:07

That's just pure unlucky!

I would seriously change all your passwords to something secure.

G18241 · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:11

basmic said:
That's just pure unlucky!

I would seriously change all your passwords to something secure.

her dad once had his details stolen, and the person started using a gambling site, as soon as 2 or 3 transactions come out in quick succesion the bank pick up on this in ring you straight away, luckily he won so her dad was up

lol

fail at the internets · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:24

The internet scares me at times like this

Burned_Alive · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:27

How did hacking your hotmail account let them spend money?

iSam · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:28

Bad luck, not a nice experience.

chiggz · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:30

Burned_Alive said:
How did hacking your hotmail account let them spend money?

^^

Carling · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:30

Burned_Alive said:
How did hacking your hotmail account let them spend money?

+1

If you used the hotmail account for details like credit card or banking then you deserve it fo being so daft!!

Hotmail is the most unsecure web mail going.

G18241 · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:31

Burned_Alive said:
How did hacking your hotmail account let them spend money?

she obviously had an email in there somewhere or could possibly have been a virus on computer with keylogger or something, really have no idea, cant have been on my computer or laptop, otherwise he would have had mine, which has a considerable larger amount of money in it, but then again so does her mums, but hers is fine and those are the only 3 computers she has used, so thats what made us think emails

Heliospherez · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:32

I can only think of one way your hotmail account would have been used & that would be if you saved all your details in there - or got someone to send them to you ????

Please don't tell us that was the case....

ethan · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:34

Carling said:
+1

If you used the hotmail account for details like credit card or banking then you deserve it fo being so daft!!

Hotmail is the most unsecure web mail going.

I wouldn't say anybody deserves to robbed . I hope you get the b$%#&$% and he gets what he deserves.

how random · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:34

So what do people use for email if not hotmail, if you dont have one from your isp what can you use?

Heliospherez · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:35

So you have no idea how it was taken then ?

More than likely someone disguised a website and someone entered the details that were needed. If thats the case (and someone in the house willingly disclosed the info) - you will have no come back and will have lost the money.

Are you sure it was due to a computer hack or a phishing website? How do you not know the card was cloned or some guy just used the details he stole from an online retailer ?

G18241 · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:37

she didnt directly put anything to do with her bank or bank details into her emails,

any invoices or anything star all your number out apart from the last 4 numbers, which im sure cant be used

could have possibly been some sort of virus i really dont know, or something completly different, just when she couldnt sign into MSN thats when something clicked

Burned_Alive · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:45

Pretty sure mine has been hacked today, cant login to hotmail/msn and my secret question is something random, very strange. Have contacted Microsoft. Pretty sure there's nothing worth having in there!

ethan · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:45

Hopefully click and buy would provide you with an address the items purchased were sent to (paper trail). Presumably the individual, and I use that term loosely, had your girlfriend's card security number?

G18241 · 11 Sep 2007 at 09:34

ethan said:
Hopefully click and buy would provide you with an address the items purchased were sent to (paper trail). Presumably the individual, and I use that term loosely, had your girlfriend's card security number?

possibly but its worrying me how, could have been one of these machiens they put over cash machines or whatever, but then how did they get the email :confused:

Tefal · 11 Sep 2007 at 09:48

G18241 said:
The swine has spent nearly £400 on my gf's card before we could get it cancelled, all at a website called www.clickandbuy.com, mostly for sums of £30 at a time, causing her to go £200 into her overdraft

have emailed the company involved, rang the bank again, still trying to get the MSN account back and hopefully have caught him off guard to have emails in there or soemthing with his details on that he has not deleted.

Luckily the mortgage and bills comes out of my account, and she gets paid weekly, so beans on toast it is for a few weeks, or until we can at least get the money back

What number did you use to ring the hotmail people?

Stretch · 11 Sep 2007 at 10:19

G18241 said:
her dad once had his details stolen, and the person started using a gambling site, as soon as 2 or 3 transactions come out in quick succesion the bank pick up on this in ring you straight away, luckily he won so her dad was up lol

Lol, that's more than lucky

G18241 · 11 Sep 2007 at 13:06

Tefal said:
What number did you use to ring the hotmail people?

We just emailed the address it tells you too, never saw a phone number though