The e-mail is obviously a scam. The shackles I keep her in would not reach to London.
She's at work right now, but we are working on either getting her account back or just using her gmail account from here on out.
What sucks is that she uses this e-mail for submissions and corresponding with editors.
--JOE
Ack! How horrible! Best wishes for you both.
ReplyDeleteThat's awful. Especially as you use it for all your submissions and things. Maybe there's something the Yahoo admins can do?
ReplyDeleteHopefully, everything can get worked out.
Not only did they change my password, my security questions had also been changed. But I think I got it under control now. We'll see.
ReplyDelete**** ****** ******'s should know better than to mess with me. **** them all to ******* ****!
Oh, and uh...honey...? I thought we were getting the second half of your awesome rant today...
ReplyDelete*snickers* I just saw the email that went out. "I"s lowercased in places, poor grammar, poor punctuation, misplaced capitals. Just all over not you. Even if you were frantic, you wouldn't have written anything that poorly. Writers can't help revising even quick messages. Plus I can't see you getting that frantic. Just POed. And it would have been Joe to let us all know you needed help.
ReplyDeleteYou know. Considering that you've been using that email for professional purposes, if you do ever catch the shmuck who hacked it, you could hit him with defamation of character in addition to attempt to fraud with your name. I mean really. Such poor writing. What if some editor got that and didn't know better. What if it cost you a sale. The shmuck tried to make money off your identity. Punch him/her back in the wallet. Kapow! (Ok, yes, I'm a tad vindictive myself on behalf of my friends.)
What if it cost you a sale.
ReplyDeleteIt very well may have, unfortunately. Thank goodness I only had ONE e-sub out when this happened. I'm hoping they just deleted it as spam.
And regarding the rest of your comment, Jaleh...THANK YOU! It's nice to know that my perfectionism is good for something. I'm glad you noticed that, and you're absolutely right. I can't even write a simple blog comment without fretting over typos and such. It's a blessing/curse.
And you're also right about me just getting mad and not fretting. Damn straight. Joe called me at work yesterday to tell me what happened and I was like, "What?!" Yeah. I was upset enough to use double punctuation. That's serious.