Yesterday was not a good day for me, because I found myself the victim of cyberfraud when someone hacked into my Yahoo account and sent an e-mail to EVERYONE on my list of contacts, saying I was stranded in Spain and needed money to get back home.
If you receive any mail from my old e-mail address: rushintrudy@yahoo.com, please be very careful - ignore or report it, as someone else seems to have taken it over now. They seem to have added an r to the address, making it rushintrRudy@yahoo.com. I'm unable to get into my yahoo account, my password doesn't work, and I can't stay in touch with my people the way I like to.
To remedy this, I've created a new e-mail account: guitartrudy@gmail.com. Please e-mail me on this one from now.
Right now, I'm struggling to convert this blog to my new e-mail address, and dreading the possibility of losing everything on it. I've tried following the steps for adding an author then deleting the first e-mail address (and losing all the photos in the process), but somewhere along the line I must be doing something wrong, because I can't complete the process. Maybe it's time to start a whole new blog anyway. If I could start a whole new e-mail address, after 11 years, then I can definitely start a new blog after 2!
I know this is not sickness (?), it's not death and it's not the end of a relationship, but I'll be honest, the sense of loss and violation I feel can't be rationalised away. Some deeply disturbed individual randomly chose my e-mail account to send a letter of appeal, changed one digit of my cell number, accepted calls on it throughout the day, and opened a bank account in my name, apparently somewhere in Spain!
I went to the police station to report the matter, especially because our new RICA law means cell numbers are traceable, but the idiot there told me to go to TELKOM, the telephone people!
I feel annoyed and frustrated at the loss of continuity this introduces into my life. I have spent a lot of time and energy building up my contacts list and marketing myself with my contact details, all of which I have to start from scratch!
What's the lesson? Right now, I'm actually too pissed off to see it!
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