My contacts list were sent an email pertaining to be from my hotmail address, with the message body below.

Please could you advise how to stop this ASAP!!

Hi, I have had exactly the same problem, with the same e-mail. The only difference is that they have also deleted all of my contact list!

Any Idea how to retrieve it?

In my case the vacation reply option was set on my e-mail so that anyone who e-mailed me was given the above message as a reply. To stop that, just go into 'options' and follow the 'vaction reply' route.

Kindly report this to the Windows Live Hotmail Customer Support Team/abuse team by sending them an e-mail to their abuse@hotmai.com address.

To prevent this from happening again, please change your password regularly.

@Angusmac

Please post the following information so we can try to recover your missing contacts:

- Your e-mail address.
- At least 3 e-mail addresses of your missing contacts.

Hi there,

I've just checked my hotmail account online and my contacts list too has been emptied and the automatic vacation response enabled.

Please could you try to recover my contacts also?

My email address is {removed email address}

4 contacts below

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

Regards

Hi,

My contacts list has also been emptied, and the vacation respone enabled.

Do I send you a list of email addresses in my contacts via this thread, or via the {removed email address} email address?

Regards

@Dogmandfds

Yes, just post your e-mail address and at least 3 e-mail addresses of your missing contacts here.

Thanks.

Please find my email address below

{removed email address}

Please find 3 Contacts below

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

Please let me know when the Contacts have been restored

Regards

My entire contact list was wiped out also. Please try to save it for me!

My address :   {removed email address}

Contacts  {removed email address}

                 {removed email address}

           {removed email address}

Many Thanks, I have received the email.

I will import the contacts manually.

Thanks for youe help.

Regards

Hi I've been having the same problem.

spam mail to all list and contact erased.

my e-mail is: {removed email address}

three others:

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

{removed email address}

can you please help?