A little bit off topic but very relevant...
By far one of the nastiest emails is one you get from one of your regular contacts and entitled "Is this you..."
If this ever appears in your inbox, delete immediately without opening it or any attachment thereto.
I though I was pretty web-savvy but fell for this one in a moment of none-thinking...It is propagated through msn and hotmail email accounts and copies all your contacts and notes your IP address. The same email is then forwarded to all of your contacts, again copying the content of their contacts file.
The only option if this happens to you is to change your msn or hotmail password and / or delete the account. Once the sender has your email account reference he can for instance change your password meaning that you cannot access the account or, as happened in my case, open a Facebook account using your email address...
Trying to notify Facebook to notify them of the illegal nature of the new account will get you nowhere as there is no way of contacting them....The one email address that Facebook used to have for such use and abuse is discontinued...So you are stuck with a Facebook account under your email address that you can do nothing about.
In the same way there is no way to contact msn or hotmail or microsoft to advise them of the hijacking of your email addy.
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