It is better to be careful with our accounts now than sorry later.

January 18th, 2012 by admin

I opened an account for my daughter when she turned fifteen because I wanted her to communicate online especially with me whenever I was out of the country. I wanted us to be able to chat whenever I traveled out of the country which I did so much them because I was starting up businesses in other countries. Unfortunately, someone hacked her account and learned of my whereabouts. Then the hacker started demanding money from me and threatened to come to the hotel where I was if I was not going to send money to him. I was really scared, so I send the money. All along, I did not know that it was my daughter’s account which was compromised. It happened again when I went back to the country that the hacker demanded more money. That time he did not have my whereabout because I was not communicating to my daughter. I decided to report the matter to the police, who later realized that my daughter’s account had been hacked after their investigations. I helped her change hotmail Account address so that the hacker could no longer trace me. That was not enough though. Each of us had to keep on changing our email address password in order to prevent any other hacker from accessing our accounts and extorting more money from us. These things happen and they may happen to anyone out there. All you need to do is to be more careful with all the accounts you create. Parents need to teach their kids how to change their passwords as often as possible in order to ensure that these accounts are always safe from hackers.

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