Someone stolen my email account and is sending scam email to my contacts for money what do I do?

Author of this Article - Jyoti Raut »
Published on September 08, 2010 @ 11:00PM PST |

Conclusion On Scam email to contacts - There are lot of spam and scam emails now a days received by lot of email account owner which ask you to give some money, and the main thing is that all the emails are either spam emails or scam email. Never try to repl on those emails.

I have three email accounts and all email account either on windows live hotmail or in yahoo mail. i think somone stolen my email account and sending various types of harassing and abusing emails and even more that person send email to my contact list email address on that the hacker or the person who hack my email account ask them to give some ammount of money. I don't even understand right now what is good for me and what i need to do with this hacker.

Scam email to contacts

I want to tell you some of the possibilities may happen when somone stolen or hacked you email account, Here now i am pointing out some of the common possible things which happen when your email account hacked by someone to who you don't know.

You will not been able to access to your email acount and the other services which provided by the same email provider.
Your contact list email address regularly getting some harassing or abusive email from your email address, and your have inform personally from any of the person who is on your contact list.
You will get an credit card bill along with the statement and you know that you didn't buy anything online in those days. This can be happen if you have entered your cradit card details on your email account.
Some of the emails which you think are very important has been deleted without your permission on your email account.
Someone read your emails before you read it.

Those are some of the possibilities which may happen and you will get an idea that your email account has been hacked or stolen by someone.

How to get back or recover If email account have been hacked or stolen

It is not that easy to get your email account back or recover all the service which is associated with the email account if the email account have been stollen or hacked by someone. Here are some of the options and ways which you can follow to get your email account back.

Contact email provider or ISP

Contact your email provider or ISP where you have you email account and tell them about your situation. And try to negotiate with them because this is the best solution which you can try and use to get the best result if your email account has been hacked.

Reset your email account Password

Try to reset your email password if someone hacked your email account might be you can't be able to access into your email account, but with follow the "Forgot Password" Under log on panel may help you to reset your password.

Change your personal settings of email account

Change your all personal details which you have entered on your email account except the normal details like your name, location. You may need to change your security question and you have to remove your cradit card information from the specific account because it may be possible that your email account may be capture again by the same hacker.

Get New Email account

It is better to use a new email account of the previous email account have been stolen, You can use previous account also but try to enable or transfer all the service which you have in your previous email acount to the newly created email account.