Date: 24 August 2008
Time: HKT 1300 - 1600
Details:
An offline MSN instant message from a friend who has not IM-ed me for a long time:
“if you want to see who has blocked or deleted you on msn please go to the following link
www.getbonusbucks.info”
I thought that friends share good things, so I clicked into it.
There was an agreement which stated that I could remove my user name anytime using an email address. So I entered my Hotmail user name and password (I thought that was necessary for the other side to find out who blocked or deleted me).
Later I found that I could not remove it. I emailed to that email address only to get “message delivery failure” emails for every email I sent. The site has not kept its promise to even be able to remove any names entered, not to mention remove it entirely.
Do you know how to remove my user name and password in the database and the memory of those websites, servers and all else? Or if you are a computer or Internet expert, can you please give me ways to contact the host(s) or servers of that website, or authorities specializing in identity theft? However please do bear in mind that:
- I am just a commoner and if I persuaded and/or did everything alone, I would not be persuasive enough. Are there more respectable people who can also help?
- This mistake was not made in the US, and no credit report, bank account or Social Security Number is attached to my Hotmail account. Are there organizations that can help?
- This is urgent: This website will expire (see http://whois.domaintools.com/getbonusbucks.info for details) before I am given the chance to request for the most help in August 2009. If I requested for help at that time, the identity thieves would be very much at large and they would deny setting up the website to create chaos in the cyberworld, chaos like this case of mine. I will literally be extremely grateful to you for your valuable aid. It is not certain if I really get the chance to speak up, but if I do, I will definitely speak of your help. Definitely.
One more question: could you please give me advice on how I should deal with this situation? Certainly prevention is better than cure, yet I have even considered permanently closing my Hotmail account, but this I do not wish.
A suggestion: if you are one who knows little about computers or Internet security, why not refer this question to a computer or Internet expert? The expert may contact me by mail; the link is in my profile.
You did not come across this question by chance.
Seize the day.
Answerers: Please understand my situation. I cannot contact the identity thief via the email on the website.
I have changed my password, thanks, but I am afraid of hacks. What if a hack was successful? I used a strong password but it does not guarantee that my account is 100% safe from being hacked.
Advice on how I should deal with this situation - where my email is out in the cyberworld, not tucked away in my brain - is what I need, not preventions.
Please forgive me for my impatience but I must get this matter dealt with. Try to put yourself in my shoes.
Oh and please find computer or Internet experts that can really help. Copy-and-paste may gain you points, but I have read even the joints.
What I mean by “I have changed my password” is that I changed my password that fateful Sunday.
The password was changed after the original one went out into the open.