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Hotmail global_assassin 03-03-2006
Posted by on March 3, 2006, 1:13 pm
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Lately while trying to guess answer to secret question to an account
that I haven't been using that much recently I only got the one chance
to guess answer to secret question then the "you have tried too many
times" page appeared. As it's so obvious that someone (ex-boyfriend I
assume as I use a yahoo account as my primary email address and he is
the only one that knows of the hotmail account) I was wondering if
there is a way which I could find out for sure if it is him. Is there
any way I can get hold of the would-be hackers ip address using netstat
or a program as he/she tries to crack answer to secret question? I
have spoken to him about this and he denies it's him or his girlfriend
but 2 of my other accounts are having their security compromised as
well and he's the only one, apart from myself, who knows of these other
accounts as well.

Thanks in advance


Posted by PA Bear on March 3, 2006, 2:47 pm
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global_assassin@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Lately while trying to guess answer to secret question to an account
> that I haven't been using that much recently I only got the one chance
> to guess answer to secret question then the "you have tried too many
> times" page appeared. As it's so obvious that someone (ex-boyfriend I
> assume as I use a yahoo account as my primary email address and he is
> the only one that knows of the hotmail account) I was wondering if
> there is a way which I could find out for sure if it is him. Is there
> any way I can get hold of the would-be hackers ip address using netstat
> or a program as he/she tries to crack answer to secret question? I
> have spoken to him about this and he denies it's him or his girlfriend
> but 2 of my other accounts are having their security compromised as
> well and he's the only one, apart from myself, who knows of these other
> accounts as well.
>
> Thanks in advance


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