Re: Help! - Messenger Hijack?



Greetings Andrew,

Well there are a lot of possibilities here; he should change his password at least:
https://login.passport.com/ChangePW.srf
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"Andrew Wilkins" <AndrewWilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My brother has just found that one of his friends has received an insulting
> message supposedly from him. He is adamant it was not sent by him and he
> suspects that someone has hijacked his messenger account. Is this possible?
> How can he stop someone from doing this?
>
> The recipient of the message is very distraught.
>
> Thanks in advance.


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