Microsoft has announced a new feature for Hotmail users that should help in the fight against email fraudsters and spammers. Often in these cases your friends email account has been compromised because they chose a weak password, or had been using the same password in multiple places only to have one of them phished. One famous example of this happening occurred two years ago, when the Hotmail account of UK politician Jack Straw (who was the country’s Justice read more in this article.”]
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