You may receive an email from a well-meaning friend warning you about receiving an email from Simon Ashton (simon25@hotmail) and that this will allow him to hack into your email account. There is no such email - only the hoax forwarded by your well meaning friend. Don't worry!
Like other versions, this message implies that simply accepting the address into your contact list will give the hacker access to your email account along with the accounts of everyone else on your list as well. This is technically infeasible. Of course, a hacker might use clever ruses to trick you into actually installing malware that allowed him to take control of your computer. And if you inadvertently provided personal information such as a username and password to the hacker, he could possibly access your online accounts and webmail. However, just adding even the cleverest hacker's address to your contact list will not, by itself, afford him this level of hacking power. Some sort of file transfer or exchange of information would, of course, be necessary.
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