I got Punk'd.

[Talking Poker]

Does it matter?

As far as this forum is concerned, I'm respecting Lou's request to take no action for the time being, for obvious reasons.

The lesson to be learned here is that everyone should be more careful - always. Keep your account info and passwords secure and do not share them with anyone, ESPECIALLY electronically. As pshabi realized, if the person you share them with doesn't keep that info secure, you could be screwed.

Also, as for the Yahoo account which was the open window to this whole mess, clearly that is not very secure if all it takes to get in is to know someone's hometown and some other basic information. So I wouldn't consider ANY webmail program secure. If you download your email to your PC, via Outlook/Eudora/whatever, that's much more secure than leaving sensitive information online in a web based account.