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I'm not 100% sure of the system these scammers use but believe they work by gaining control of your email account first in many cases. Could that be your security hole?
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I suspect that might have been the cause of all my trouble. In the meanwhile I have installed some extra protection on my machine:
Kerio Firewall in combination with
Webroot´s Privacy Master , which makes it possible to password protect and encode any directory on your PC (including your email dir). And I must admit, that so far I have been seeing some quite suspicious entries (i.e. failed attempts) in my logs.
I had Zone Alarm installed until recently, but since it was causing me quite some problems, I decided to remove it and didn´t replace it. My error...