The incidence of hacking hotmail is very common nowadays. Some guy from Nigeria hacked my hotmail account and sent an email to every email id in my contact list where he demanded $2500. And he wrote it perfectly with no grammatical mistake. Below is the message which was sent to everyone in my contact list.
How do I know that the mail was sent from Nigeria ?
I called a friend of mine and asked him to give his password so that I can trace the email’s IP. I logged into my friend’s account and viewed the email’s message source.
The source code which showed up on my browser:
The x-originating-IP showed in red mark is the IP from where the mail is sent. I copied the IP, 41.155.88.147 and pasted it on http://whatismyipaddress.com to find out the location of the IP address. The result showed that the IP is from Nigeria.
I was very depressed because I don’t want to lose all the valuable email and my hotmail was my oldest and first email account. So what happened next ? I got my account back !
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