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On 11/29/2010 08:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2010 12:49:27 Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
>>>> http://la-felce.it/index808.php
>>> Isn't it time to ban this idiot?
>> The problem here is that the user's yahoo password has been hacked. I
>> have seen this exact same thing with other yahoo, gmail and aol
>> addresses.  The user needs to change his/her yahoo password to clear
>> this up.
> That wouldn't be so easy. If the e-mail account has been hijacked, the 
> hijacker has probably changed the password already, and the user doesn't have 
> access to his account anymore. He can ask for help from yahoo, but they are 
> usually unwilling to do anything unless the user can prove his identity and 
> that the account has actually been hijacked. They also typically refuse to 
> give help unless the user has a paid support account with yahoo.
>
> I don't know about aol and gmail, but I doubt they are any different from yahoo 
> in this respect. So unless the user has been paying for e-mail services to 
> yahoo (and really, why would he ever do that?! ;-) ), he is unlikely to 
> retreive his password any time soon...
It is my experience with the several users I know whose accounts were
hacked, it was by script and the passwords were not changed. A simple
changing of the passwords stopped the SPAM. However, you are absolutely
correct if the hacker actually changed the password.

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