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The phone co have informed me that here be an attempt to hack into my email, what are they looking for?

Why would someone want to hack into my email? who could it be? and what could they find if they be competent to?


Answers: There could be number of reason:-
1> using your address book (containing your friends' email addresses) to distribute spam or unwanted items mails
2> trying to take financial information ( from your edge statements etc) to commit financial fraud.
3> to distribute messages within your identify to your friends to commit some fraud or prank
4>some one spying on you to bring back personal information give or take a few you.
the largest common sense would be to find any email from banks-credit card co.etc. and later something like any piece they can find to reck havoc on you and your contacts.