PCWorld: Protecting Your E-mail Accounts From Scammers
MacWorld’s Christopher Breen responds to a reader’s query about how to protect herself from being victimized again by scammers who sent all her contacts e-mails begging for funds to bail her out of a fictional emergency.
“Reader Deb Ward is the victim of an increasingly common scam. She writes:
I have a MobileMe account that I believe was hacked. First a message was sent to everyone in my .mac email address book that I was in the UK, held up at gun point, stranded, and to please send money. Then, the hacker was able to get into my .mac account and have my emails forwarded to a Yahoo account! How can this happen? How do I protect my email accounts? And how do I protect the rest of the information on my computers?”
