Your acct's been hijacked.
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yes i got the same email from him
I just received an email from Mike too but don't think its particularly dangerous - i.e., not a virus per se. Most likely a spyware that is spreading advertising...
A nuisance non the less!
Originally Posted by Mark V. Spadaro:
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
But what if you are only awake 12 hours a day? 
I received two emails, ten minutes apart. just deleated them, did not open them.
Originally Posted by cbojanower:
Originally Posted by Mark V. Spadaro:
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
But what if you are only awake 12 hours a day?
If you drink 24 bottles of beer a day, you'll be lucky to stay awake for 12 hours. 
I received one also, Mike.
Got one also!
All I got was the 24 bottles of beer. Talk about deprivation.
Gerry
Sorry to all of you for the inconvenience. I was hacked. (And just for the record, I don't think any of you need to lose weight!) 
- Mike
Yep, I got it too a few hours ago.
Rob
I got it too and like the naive fool that I am I clicked on the link. Luckily I was using a public PC, wait, no, I wouldn't be happy if my action caused a problem.
It's weird. I've received two of these myself in the last 2 days. (Not from me, of course, lol, but from other acquaintances who've e-mailed me in the past. ) Must be something that's "going around."
Walt, I hope the episode you're talking about occurred a couple of days ago, because I changed my settings since then. But if you received this today, please let me know, either here or via e-mail, so i can address the problem. I haven't heard of any issues since I changed my settings.
Again, sorry to all for the trouble.
- Mike
Originally Posted by mkcaruso:
Sorry to all of you for the inconvenience. I was hacked. (And just for the record, I don't think any of you need to lose weight!)
- Mike
Oh sure now you say it when I already lost 4 pounds.
Mike
Just do a little research -
AOLMailRoy Answered:
Many times spammers just fake your address. That means that while it appears that your address has sent the messages, and you even get the "rejections" back, its not your account. There's a pretty easy way to check this out...
Go into your Sent Mail folder. Do you see outgoing messages that looks suspicious or that you don't recognize? If so, your account may indeed have been hijacked. If not, then you're ok.
In any case, one sure way to block people from accessing you account is to change your password. You can do that at http://password.aol.com/.
Originally Posted by JB_GPS:
Just do a little research -
AOLMailRoy Answered:
Many times spammers just fake your address. That means that while it appears that your address has sent the messages, and you even get the "rejections" back, its not your account. There's a pretty easy way to check this out...
Go into your Sent Mail folder. Do you see outgoing messages that looks suspicious or that you don't recognize? If so, your account may indeed have been hijacked. If not, then you're ok.
Whew, that's a relief! So for all of you out there who opened up a link from "me" and infected your computers, leading to costly tech support charges, it was somebody "pretending" to be me. Ha Ha. 
I'm not sure how this is supposed to be some sort of consolation. I mean, if my 75-year old Aunt Gladys in Pawtucket gets an e-mail from "me" for some male-enhancement drug it doesn't reduce the "awkwardness quotient" all that much if I tell her, "Oh it was people pretending to be me.
But your point about changing your personal settings is well taken.
Originally Posted by mkcaruso:
I'm not sure how this is supposed to be some sort of consolation. I mean, if my 75-year old Aunt Gladys in Pawtucket gets an e-mail from "me" for some male-enhancement drug it doesn't reduce the "awkwardness quotient" all that much if I tell her, "Oh it was people pretending to be me.
And why would Aunt Gladys have any reason to start believing you now? 
Mike, first off, it was several days ago that I got the bogus email.
Secondly, the same exact thing happened to my nephew about a month ago. I got an email from 'him' and it had a one sentence message about how interesting the included link was. Yes, I clicked on the link. My nephew claimed that he changes his password almost weekly so he couldn't understand how someone could have hacked his email.
- walt
Interestingly, I saw on AOL's home page today they posted a story about how some third party had compromised their mail system and advising people to change their personal settings. Glad to know it's not a larger, computer-wide problem.
