My friend's e-mail has been hacked and I received a scam 419 asking for $2. 5K "because he was in trouble. My e-mail address will be used to send all the people in my address book a similar message?

This message was a typical nigerian scam (419), where someone sympathize with you and/or hacks in your email then tells friends, you are in a strange country and someone stole your wallet and $2,500 need related to you.

Because this happened to my friend, I'm afraid that my own email address has been compromised.

Microsoft has responded to my report with the type 'keeps' email but does not guarantee that they would take care that my own email would not be for the same uses.  How can I stop my own friends in my address book to my hotmail account to receive the same message "allegedly coming from me?

Thank you!

It seems that the only thing they have is your email address that is not desirable, but not a disaster. I suggest you (in this order):

1 scan you PC for malware using at least 2 good name * anti-malware products. Assuming that you have a product of real-time protection in place (for example, Norton, Microsoft Security Essentials) use it as a. The other could be the free www.malwarebytes.org demand scanner.

2. now that your pretty confident that your PC is free of malware change your password for a very tough - it is one of the most important things you can do to secure messaging accouunts (such as Hotmail). For advice about strong passwords, see:

http://www.Microsoft.com/en-GB/security/online-privacy/passwords-create.aspx

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx .

Always use a different password for each different account otherwise if an account is hacked other accounts is more vulnerabe to be hacked too.

Finally, if you are really worried then change your e-mail account and close the one they know.

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