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Re: [LUG] More scam emails

 

On 13/10/2018 12:59, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, Brad Rogers wrote:

Clearly, at some point, he was duped into giving his password on a bogus
site.  When that occurred will likely remain a mystery.

More likely that the site was storing them in plain-text or weakly encrypted then the site was compromised.

Use a unique password for every site then you can instantly identify which site.

Gordon

I do have different passwords for each site. Since my email I have had two more such rubbish emails. At least I now know that I am not the only one.

Neil

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