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   Deathweaver to subc   
   Re: Yahoo! issues   
   29 Nov 05 21:12:03   
   
   From: deathweaver@hotmail.com   
      
   subc wrote:   
   > Deathweaver wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Ok, so here's the deal.  My wife is not as computer savvy as I   
   >>would like her to be, and unfortunately, got nailed by a bunch of   
   >>phishers on her Yahoo! email account.  It's just a basic free   
   >>account.  The phishers got her password, reset it, and I would   
   >>like to help her get it back. I'm not looking at hacking the Yahoo   
   >>db in order to get the password, just some sort of a general   
   >>work-around that would allow her to reset it again.  Normally, we   
   >>would just do this ourselves, but she used fictious info to create   
   >>the acct (to hide it from her ex-husband) and so she doesn't   
   >>remember any of it.  Any assistance or pointers in the right   
   >>direction would be greatly appreciated.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > That was one of the most round about ways to ask how to hack   
   > hotmail/yahoo I have heard in some time.  Just create a new account.   
   > Use valid information that her ex doesn't know if she is that worried.   
   > If someone really got her email account, the mails stored there are   
   > probably gone anyway.   
   >   
   Creating a new acct is the easy part, we did that not long after the   
   acct was compromised.  The only thing is that she needs the email.  If   
   they're gone, well, it sucks but nothing we can do.  At minimum, we just   
   want to know if the mail is gone.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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