Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

[Deepak070]

Hi Folks,

Lately my friends on my hotmail account have been receiving the spam mails from my fone containing the following hyberlink:-

http://ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/serviceg/audience/ceiling

Has any one else been facing the same issue? How will i find the source?

Is is related to any app which i have installed in my fone?

Regards,

Deepak

 

[montsa007]

Re: Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

Check if they have installed an app. I mean all of them need to have that app?
Else their hotmail ID is being toyed with.
Simply mark that mail as spam.

 

[OzRob]

Re: Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

Is is related to any app which i have installed in my fone?

This recently happened to me. I had my Windows account linked to my Twitter account, and I believe someone hacked my Twitter account (they'd sent some odd tweets from my account) and then got access to my Microsoft email account and sent out a whole bunch of spam.

If I were you I'd unlink all accounts and apps from your windows account, change the password on all accounts and enable two-step authentication on your Microsoft account (and any other accounts that support it). It's a bit of a pain, but it took me a couple of hours to get everything sorted out (I had Twitter, Google, Facbook and LinkedIn accounts all linked to my Microsoft account).

From what I've read, Twitter leaks like a sieve in terms of security, so I haven't reconnected my Twitter account. I only access Twitter through the web interface, not through any of the WP8 hubs (which require you to link it to the MS account).

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Re: Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

Just in case no one bothered to check where it goes:
Eye On Health - Green Coffee Burns Fat

I recommend that you don't go there.

 

[montsa007]

Re: Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

^You really shouldn't have opened the link.

 

[LMZR]

Re: Spam Mails being sent from my 820-"ottawa.alkauthar.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/....."

Yeah, it's a bad idea to put the link there, people are curious and might be tempted to go check the site.