Today, I'm making a big departure from the typical National Socialist topics to discuss a big problem on the internet today: Hacking. This is of grave concern to all - including, or perhaps ESPECIALLY National Socialists.
Now bear in mind it's Friday evening as I write this.
Yesterday, I came home from work at the usual time. The first thing I do is turn on my computer and check my email, both personal, and ANP. Usually, I do my personal email first, which is what I did that Thursday. I get online, open my email, and my mouth drops open. I have over 500 emails! Almost all were from Mailer-Daemon, telling me that the email I sent was undeliverable. Here's the thing. I didn't send them. So I open a few, and the addresses they were sent to were unknown to me. They came with attachments which contain the original text. However, since hackers put viruses and worms in attachments, I wouldn't open them, so I have no idea what the message was.
So I deleted them all. That's over with, right? WRONG! Shortly after, about 100 more pour in. Same story. I deleted them again. I'm thinking, "WTF?!"
So I keep an eye on my email. About every hour or so, a new batch of 100 or so of these Mailer-Daemon notices comes in. Then it hit me what's going on. Some turd hacked into my email account, and is using it to spam people. That could get ME in trouble. Plus if he was a con artist and scamming people, I could get the blame.
First, I changed my email password. They still kept flooding in. Next, I email my email provider and report what's happening. I figured at least I can get this on the record that it's happening and I'm not to blame.
About four hours later, I get an email from my provider. They said they have looked into the matter and are satisfied that I'm not to blame. They said they would change the settings or something from their end, and all I had to do was change my password again, and it should stop.
Thank God it did. All was normal again.
What happened was some internet conman hacked my account, and was sending out regularly scheduled emails using a list he had, and an autoresponder. Evidently, some of the addresses he had were no longer any good, but he had no way of knowing that because the failure notices were coming to me, so every time he sent out a batch of spam, I got more failure notices.
I contacted a few ANP comrades and both Chairman Suhayda and Axl Hess said that had happened to them as well.
If this should happen to any of you, here's what you do. DON'T change your password - yet. Chances are it's too late for that if the hacker is any good. Instead, report it immediately to your email provider whether it's Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or a private provider like AOL. When they get back to you, they'll give you instructions what to do. THEN DO IT IMMEDIATELY!
It's not just a matter of stopping nuisance failure notices for email you never sent. You do not want to be blamed for any spamming, which could get your account suspended. Plus, if the hacker is a conman, you certainly don't want to be blamed for any internet bunko scheme. Sure, you can prove your innocence. But that could be quite a lot of bother and give you an enormous series of headaches and aggravations. It's best to report something like this at once, and follow their instructions to the letter.
I had one day of headaches. How many would I have had if I hadn't reported this the same day? I'd hate to have to find out the hard way!
BTW, here's a big headache for you. Only six months more to Christmas! Where does the time go?
Dan 88!
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