Re: Hacked!

On 2/4/21 1:55 AM, Simon Becherer wrote:
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> Am 03.02.21 um 20:08 schrieb Doug McGarrett:
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>> 3. In the last two days have received email stating that an order was received from me to Amazon
>> for a $3000 camera, and that it would be delivered Wednesday, along with a phone number to cancel
>> the order. I did not place such an order, and called Amazon to straighten this out, which they did.
>> It had my full name on it. I forget if it had my house address.
> 1)
> i would be very carefully with such mails. IF this mail IS a fake YOU call fake people
> (not the real amazon people)
> and (maybe) give them the rest of your personal data (bank account or password or something else) ->
> I would never answer to such a mail. i would read carefully and then SEARCH OUTSIDE
> the mail for a contact.
> here in germany its not normal that you get a PHONE number
> from amazon. so i would say you where falling in their trap.
Well, I did not talk to anyone at that phone number, I called Amazon.
So I do not give any bank information over the internet, I won't even
deal with my banks over the net. It is, however, obvious that I have to
provide real entities with my credit card number and address and
phone number. A couple of times there has been something suspicious
about a credit charge and I follow that up right away. I have had bills
cancelled and cards replaced, which the credit card companies are
very helpful in doing.
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> only idea i have is now to hope you have NOT give them any account information
> (bank, or amazon passwords) (real support people will never ask you about this type
> of information)
> you could with google try to search for this phone number. sometimes such numbers
> are know for spam or other bad things.
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> 2)
> your full name could come from maybe this list (if somebody read here) or
> some OTHER computer who has your emailadress and mail was hacked, or some
> marketplace or something else was hacked. i receive sometimes mails from people
> i know, but the mail is not from them. and i am pretty sure (never 100%) that
> nobody up to now has hacked my systems. SOMEWHERE a emailadressbook was hacked
> where i and some other contacts of me where in.
> you could go to
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> https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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> and follow the instructions.
I Have vaguely heard of that operation, and I will follow it up. Twice
I have received mail purpoting to be from someone I know, but that
always gave itself away one way or another, and I have informed the
people who were impersonated so they could take whatever action
they thought was desirable.
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> therefore you could see if your data is inside a !!KNOWN!! hacker list.
> (of course with this you will not know if your computer was hacked.)
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> 3) !!!!for security reasons, change NOW imidiately zour login data for amazon!!!!!
> and if you use the same combination of password and loginname  somewhere else,
> change all !!! -> NEVER use same password and login name by different accounts!!!!
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> 4) there are usb boot sticks for download from known anti-virus sides
> avira f-prot mcaffee (only examples, not checked if they still offer it
> for free) with this you could boot a possible infected system and search for
> KNOWN virus - OF COUSRSE you should donwload and safe to stick this
> on a computer who is sure not infected.
Yes, good idea! I hadn't thought about running an AV routine from an 
external
source. I will have to follow up on that.
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> 5) if you receive a file inside a mail you are not sure it is free of maleware
> you could upload it to www.virustotal.com (and if only one scanner reports
> a problem i would not open the file.
> i receive about one time a week  mails with pretty new viruses. sometimes (1 or 2 times
> last year) i am the first who uploaded this type of file (maybe the virus is known inside
> the file) but the file itself in this combination was never uploaded before.
> and there are always only a hand full scanners who detect it. ( a couple of weeks
> later mostly the rate increased)
I don't think I've ever received a file inside a mail, even from family, 
unless it was
obvious what it referred to. And if it was NOT from family, I would 
certainly not open it.

Thank you for your interest. You have definitely given me some thigs to 
think about
and some steps to take.
--doug
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