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Hacking Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail...

Posted: September 13, 2005

Updated: July 12, 2009

Computer Hackers nowadays offers different services - and the most widely offered is to crack into email passwords such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, Lycos and so on. Some are really good but most are just scams.

The most common and successful method is achieved with the use of keyloggers to record any email passwords and computer surveillance software. 100 percent sure, makers of this application often called it that way, not a "hacking program."

Recently, forums are flooded with different offers from so called email hackers. Are you sure they are really hackers and have success on the task you will be giving them?

Beware of Scams

Step-by-step Yahoo hacking!!! So many have been victimized by this, sending their passwords and hoping that they can retrieved a targeted account by following these:

It goes this way:
Log in to your own yahoo account. Compose an e-mail to: recoversecretcode@yahoo.com. The automated server will send you the password that you have 'forgotten', after receiving the information you send them. STEP 3- In the subject line type exactly: password retrieve...etc, etc...

Don't fall into this. It's a real scam. The only way to recover your password is going to your email account, check for "Forgot Password" and it will ask you for authentication before it resets your password.

In Yahoo for example, it will prompt for "secret questions" which you have filled during your sign-up. Thereafter the original passwords will be emailed to your alternate email account, which also you have provided during sign-up. It is very important to keep those "sign-up" information for your future use.

Scammers common trick is to ask users to send money before they start the process. Most of them are generating large amount of money with this, but no results or job is done in the end. You will end up a victim.

If there is a great need for you to retrieved someone's email password, there are some who can provide it for you, choose the best, someone who will send you proofs such as screenshots of inbox, sent items or address book before they ask for payment. Though, we never advise you to resort into this, it is still invading others privacy no matter how you accomplished it.

Methods of Cracking Email Passwords

As mentioned earlier, one of the most successful method is achieved with the used of monitoring softwares and keyloggers. There are lots of Monitoring Software, logging tools available today such as Keystroke Spy, Spy Agent, Netvizor, Spy Anywhere, RealTime Spy to name a few. This software will create a self extracting or installation file, you can then run it in the computer for surveillance, or email it to your target.

These monitoring software are also being implemented in home, to monitor childs computer activity as well in offices to monitor employees.

Keep in mind that computer surveillance Programs should be used only if necessary, it was not created to invade someone's privacy. If you are going to use it, be a responsible user.

We don't endorse hacking or spying, this article was written to exposed the scam behind the Email Hacking Business.