Windows 10: Someone Else Used My Email for Their Microsoft Account and It's Ruining My Life

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  1. FREDDIEDEBOER
    FreddiedeBoer Win User

    Someone Else Used My Email for Their Microsoft Account and It's Ruining My Life


    Hi, I have a strange problem and it's really defeating my efforts to solve it. Today I got a new laptop and went to set it up. Without thinking about it I used my most commonly used email address, a Gmail account, when signing in. However I forgot that I set up my Microsoft account many years ago with a Hotmail account. My Gmail account was apparently erroneously used by someone with my same first name but a different last name. It would be nice to reclaim my email address and associate it with my Microsoft account! The bigger problem, though, is that now I'm signed in with this other person's

    :)
     
    FreddiedeBoer, Jan 5, 2022
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  2. NEWTEKIE1
    newtekie1 Win User

    Unauthorized Emails from my account?

    It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

    Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.
     
    newtekie1, Jan 5, 2022
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  3. THEMAILMAN78
    TheMailMan78 Win User
    email account hacked. please help

    Then I suggest you use it.
     
    TheMailMan78, Jan 5, 2022
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  4. THEMAILMAN78
    TheMailMan78 Win User

    Someone Else Used My Email for Their Microsoft Account and It's Ruining My Life

    email account hacked. please help

    Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

    Gmail
    Outlook

    The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

    I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!
     
    TheMailMan78, Jan 5, 2022
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