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Originally Posted by 26667
This happpened to my nephew last year. They steal your password to get your address book. They hope to drum up scams based on what your friends think is your recommendation. Last I knew, he still couldn't get hotmail to close his account. Start a new mailbox elswhere, notify as many people as you can remember from your old acct. and tell them to not open anything from your old hotmail acct.
Joe
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Thx for the info, which btw is correct, I've done alot of searching, there is no way to close your Hotmail acc't, they say to quit using it and it will be closed after so many days of not logging in (2 hundred something if I remember correctly), which normally would be fine, but since someone else is logging on and sending emails out I guess it will never be closed.
There is no phone # to get ahold of anybody at Hotmail, one phone # I found is for billing and for paid acc'ts only relating to billing issues. I did find an
[email protected] email that I'm going to send an email explaining the situation (apparantly I am one of hundreds this has happended to, and nobody seems to be able to resolve this) and beg to permanently delete my hotmail account, its embarassing to have these go out every week or so, I have got a new Gmail address a couple of weeks ago and deleted all my contacts from my hotmail, but they still go out.
BTW-I've had a HM acc't for 10 years and never needed CS so I did not know this, and I'm not sure if Gmail is the same but my mom has a SBCglobal email (free), now ATT/Yahoo, she came over a few weeks back and I helped her join Ebay/PP ect. and we needed to access her email, of course she didn't know her PW or security questions so we called ATT and they were very helpful, even gave my mom his direct extension explaining that when she returned home since we changed PW's that her modem would need resetting and he would walk her through it, didn't think too much of their CS at that time how but now I do!!!!!