Am I just paranoid?

[Booze Zombie]

I know forums aren't here to baby sit the paranoid and neurotic, but am I fucking paranoid here?
See, I had a friend for a while and he's the only person who I've given my email address to in the history of ever, for no particular reason, though.

Anyway, my Yahoo account got locked for 12 hours because someone was trying to access the same address and I sure as Hell know it wasn't me and now I'm thinking, what if he got home one day and found the scrap of paper he wrote it down on and decided "hey, I'm not friends with that prick anymore, I'm going to fuck about with his email".

I mean, it's not some grand scheme I'm imagining here, merely that a bored ex-friend would preform a malicious action upon myself.
What do you guys think?

For discussion value, any of you ever get like this about something going wrong or something bad happening?

 

[Verlander]

Email accounts are hacked all the time, mine was the other week. It's probably someone you don't know.

Things like this help to highlight the lack of proper security that exists over most of the internet

 

[Byere]

Depends on how you two stopped being friends. If it was particularly violent or spiteful, then it's possible.

Then again, it could have been something that happened online. If you've ever bought stuff online or had to put your email in to sign up to anything (like a forum or registering a game), then it could have happened that way. All I can say is that unless you have proof that it was your ex-friend, don't blame them.
All you can do is change the password and make it more secure. If it's not too valuable an address (linked to anything that's too difficult to change the details on or you get particular emails to like stuff from work/school, etc), then you could just scrap the address and make up a new email account, just to be sure.

 

[Booze Zombie]

All you can do is change the password and make it more secure. If it's not too valuable an address (linked to anything that's too difficult to change the details on or you get particular emails to like stuff from work/school, etc), then you could just scrap the address and make up a new email account, just to be sure.

Oh, allow me to clarify this here, my account isn't compromised.
Yahoo just decided to lock it because someone tried to access it about 5-10 times in a row unsuccessfully.

 

[CatoCaolan]

Bizarre, but this sort of thing does happen often. I wouldn't read too much into it, probably just a strange moment in timing. Or I'm him and trying to throw you off. O_O

in all seriousness, I've been down this road and it never ends up being justified. Plus, paranoia can be very, very bad.

 

[Penguinness]

Probably very unlikely your friend would have done anything to it. It's just paranoia.

 

[ZeroMachine]

I highly doubt it's your friend, but it seems relevant to ask why you two are no longer friends. So... why? Is there a grudge?

 

[JezebelinHell]

I have actually had to ditch an email account on Yahoo in the past. I had one that was my initials and last name and about 5 other people with the same initials and last name kept sending it out at their email address. I am not kidding. I have access to their accounts on MyLife, facebook, shopping accounts, family pictures sent from relatives and I have replied to job offers because they have used it on their resume. I have even been nice enough to send them emails at their actual address, when I have figured it out, and explain to them their mistakes and they keep doing it. So yea, my Yahoo account would get locked out when they would try to log in with it. Now that account gets so much spam that isn't caught by the filter that is is unusable.

Anyway, it could just be someone thinking that is their account name and they have been trying to log in with it.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

It isn't paranoia if everyone really is out to get you.

<__>

 

[CouchCommando]

Well here's my tale of Paranoia I was actually in a workplace where I got a weird vibe from some of the people their, I also started getting weird prank phone calls, in the middle of the night on my work phone on most work days. After a number of months stuff started going missing from my workplace, usually from my work area, and then a series of over the top racial slurs against the minority who was probably my closest work mate at the time started appearing on the bath room walls.
A couple of days later a manager called me into the office and claimed they had several witnesses who claimed to see me writing the racial diatribes against my work mate.
And notified me that it was an instant dismissal offense which I agreed with. Wasn't sorry to see the last of that work environment. BUT I did decide to do some research and googled groups that promote harassment and character assassination and there it all was.
My Paranoia vindicated.
I was working with a bunch of scientologists, I guess they didn't appreciate my knocking Tom Cruise ,A Religious order founded by a science fiction author and American brain washing cults in general (a hobby of mine since I was actually born into one)
And as for confronting them I actually had one still loitering out side my residence for a number of months after leaving that job, who I actually confronted and laughed my arse off at when he asked what I was going to do about it (the lies and stitch up that he and his COS buddies pulled off on me) After I told him I knew it was them. He couldn't get that my personal revenge was the fact that they stay in scientology it seemed to be working well for them.

 

[LandoCristo]

Am I just paranoid? Or am just stoned?

Ahh, Greenday...

OT: My friends had their WoW accounts hacked within 3 days of each other once. three accounts, a span of nine days, BAM-BAM-BAM! One of them cleaned out the guild bank and the other two just dropped their max level Enchanting and tailoring to mine Copper ore for 48 hours. I dunno, but I logged on every few hours to check on them while my friends were getting their accounts confirmed, and they were in Duskwood forest the entire time.

 

[Booze Zombie]

And as for confronting them I actually had one still loitering out side my residence for a number of months after leaving that job, who I actually confronted and laughed my arse off at when he asked what I was going to do about it (the lies and stitch up that he and his COS buddies pulled off on me) After I told him I knew it was them. He couldn't get that my personal revenge was the fact that they stay in scientology it seemed to be working well for them.

Scientology scares me... those creepy little fuckers and their cult of money and power.
Good to hear that you got away from them, though.

 

[The Wykydtron]

What are you talking about OP? These forums are all about babysitting the paranoid and neurotic...

[sub]Well it would make things more fun if that was the case anyway.[/sub]

 

[Sampler]

Why do you even check an email account if the only person who has it is an ex-friend you don't want to be in contact with?

Oh, you mean he's not the only person with it.

And as mentioned - bots will try various combinations and random passwords as a way of brute forcing into accounts - apparently the errors generated for a wrong password differ from username not found.

 

[Illesdan]

And as for confronting them I actually had one still loitering out side my residence for a number of months after leaving that job, who I actually confronted and laughed my arse off at when he asked what I was going to do about it (the lies and stitch up that he and his COS buddies pulled off on me) After I told him I knew it was them. He couldn't get that my personal revenge was the fact that they stay in scientology it seemed to be working well for them.

Scientology scares me... those creepy little fuckers and their cult of money and power.
Good to hear that you got away from them, though.

This is why I talk to virtually no one at work. And the one friend I do have there, he and I have an agreement about what we discuss openly and what we save for when we're away from the job. If I am forced to interact with the other co-workers, it is strictly about the job, the job only, and nothing about other co-workers or management in any kind of light. I have seen comments and conversations on more than one occasion come back and get a person fired.