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Comment from Mark J on 2011-10-08

2011-10-08T08:28:42Z

@Joe
There's not much you can do to find out about this person.

http://ask-leo.com/what_can_people_tell_from_my_ip_address.html

In your shoes, I'd protect my account by changing my Hotmail password, security question and alternate email address.

http://ask-leo.com/my_windows_live_hotmail_contact_list_has_been_hacked_how_do_i_recover.html

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Comment from Joe on 2011-10-07

2011-10-08T04:09:48Z

Leo-a crazy chick hacked my hotmail account and stole some pictures of another female I'm friends with and then kept resetting my hotmail password and adding another friend of mine's email to my account and basically pretending to be my friend doing this (my friend hasn't used this account in years), my question is: is there any way to trace where this was all done from, location wise, i.e. crazy chicks residencem, cell phone, etc?

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Comment from Michael on 2011-04-26

2011-04-26T21:04:08Z

There are also websites which will convert your email address into a picture which can be read by a human but which will fool ordinary text scanning character recognition software.

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Comment from David on 2008-04-25

2008-04-26T02:46:09Z

You can also put in a different way than email format....xxxxx(at)gmail(dot)com

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Comment from Octav on 2008-04-25

2008-04-26T02:34:25Z

To Kevin Carroll, re: needing to be contacted:

In such cases, perhaps you can get away with a layer of indirection. Instead of putting your email address there, put in a small form allowing people to contact you. The form should be simple: just an email address to contact the person in question, and the message they want to send you.

You can have the form direct all submissions to your email address (which you are not publishing, instead only the Web server knows it and directs form submissions to it), and can use the reply function of your email client to respond directly to the address claimed by the commenter, whose email is also not being published anywhere.

You can probably hire any half-decent Web programmer to write this for you, and it does the desired job -- keeping your email safe from prying eyes.

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Comment from kevin carroll on 2008-04-25

2008-04-26T01:45:12Z

What about if you have a site advertising your services, and you need to put your email address there? Is there no way to stop this being picked up and spammed?

thnks

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