Perhaps the most frequent problem computer users experience is having their email accounts compromised because they are using easy-to-guess passwords.
Literally every week or two last year I received panicked phone calls from people asking “What can I do?” Add to this the dozens and dozens of emails I received saying “My email account was hacked. Don’t open any emails from me. They contain a virus. Sorry!” Every single one of these people had told themselves “It can’t happen to me.”
Criminal elements are using sophisticated software to break passwords, and if you use a simple password they are likely to gain access to your account. Usually their purpose is to send out spam to everyone in your address book, but I have talked to people who have suffered serious financial loss because the crooks gained access to emails with bank account numbers, personal data, etc. One person suffered the embarrassment of sending ads for raunchy pornography to everyone on their church bible study mailing list.
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