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I just got home from work and read my Hotmail email. I had one from Amazon saying that suspicious activity had taken place and that my account was put on some kind of hold. Being used to PayPal and Ebay fraud, I overlooked it and figured it was a scam. Until I saw my next email.

It was an email from DPReview.com, an well-known digital camera review site. The message was to inform me that my account was put on a temporary hold because someone had tried to log into account (basically it's just a talk forum) and done so with incorrect information more than 5 times.

This is definitely no coincidence. Any idea what's going on? Why would someone be trying to access sites that wouldn't have any of my credit card, social security info, etc such as DPReview? I would guess Amazon since they could order stuff, but now I'm just confused. Are there maybe types of "stupid" computer bots that take any and all websites that I access and try my usernames in hope to find valuable info?

Also, DPReview interestingly sent me the IP address of the computer that was doing the attempted logins. I'll post it here when I get an OK from the mods (not sure if it'd be ok or not), thouh an IP search took me to ThePlanet.com, "dedicated servers and web hosting" in Texas.

Thanks for any advice.

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