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This is not at all my usual kind of content, but, shit happens. More exactly, a moron decided to break my university account and then using the email started to send messages to the same account with my password for that account in the description. I blacked out the address and password, but they were correct.
I've discovered this randomly, mostly because nothing important is ever send to that email, and I very rarely even check this inbox, maybe once or twice a year. Basically, I only use it to upload a homework or enter a course, the inbox is useless.
And that time of year came last night, only because I had to actually check for a mail. At first, this got me by surprise, and I panicked a little bit, thinking about how this might get access to my computer, especially from that address. I'm kinda paranoid on situations like this one, but I was never going to give up to blackmail, especially to free advertisement, lol.
This wasn't so bad after all, but it made me really level up on security. I changed all my passwords to something more secure to a point when even social engineering will not work on them, and the account that was hacked will not see the light outside a virtual box for the rest of its existence.
As for the guy that tried this scam, I'm sorry for the plants that produce oxygen for you.
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