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thanks all for the quick responses...much appreciated.

an email has been sent to the abuse team.... and the girl is now in the process of letting her mates know whats been happening.

out of curiosity though....i suppose the hotmail guys are able to log IP address's to users... so supposing they are able to trace whoever's done this...what would be thier usual course of action ???

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I would think so but I'm not sure, if they look to track the account before closing it IP tracking is one way of trying to locate the person abusing the account.

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Not sure what they would usually do.

You would probably find that anybody clever enough, or determined enough, to have hacked an account like that will probably have covered their tracks quite well.

It might be worth suggesting that she does a complete sweep of the machine for a virus/any spyware as well. It is possibe (although probably unlikely) that some sort of keylogger/other spyware was used to gain the password for the account.

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whoever it is, they,ve just signed on and are seems like they just got to me in the contact list... getting a few abusive messages

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:LOL:

Perhaps we should all gang up on them.....

Actually, probably best not to. Probably best to leave it to MS to sort.

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my mate gets me down there under the pretence of havin a drink...and usually spend a bit of time once a week cleaning the pc for him... so is thouroghly cleaned at least once a week... does get the odd bit of spyware on there...but is reasonably secure for a home pc
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thats what i thought.. aint gonna be replying to them... i figure the longer they are signed on the better chance is of catching em...

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Email them, see if you get a reply... then, you have an IP (of sorts)
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I should of course say, pretend you know nothing about the hacking and try and contact your "daughter" - they may reply to that.

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done. :) lets see if i get a reply. going by the messages he or she sent me... i'd have to say that it was a kid messing around... just going by the terminology they were using....and the awful spelling.

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Get a few other people to do the same. :) preferably a few of the contacts.

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My friend has had his hacked just now, what action do i take. I havent got his number so contacting him is out of the question.

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hi wayne..
my mate use the abuse email address abuse@hotmail.com

he had an automated response within a few minutes... basicly saying that someone had been assigned to investigate the matter further..

if you havent got a contact number for your mate... i dunno the best way to go about it to be honest... i suppose you could mail them on your friends behalf... but i'd imagine they may want some kind of contact information for him ????

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Ive sent them an email, so hopefully they should reply.

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To be honest I'd recommend the police, try you're local cop shop, after all that's what they're paid for. Better to be safe than sorry :(

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yeh thats what i thought.. even though it may well just be some kid messing around.. is better to be safe than sorry. my mate will be calling into the local police station on his way to work in the morning

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and if it is a kid then at least it will scare the hell out of them. It could well be another person who knows the girl and is hacking in for a laugh? It would explain why that account was targetted

Isnt there a online police service to report this kind of thing