I am furious!  I was in the middle of organizing an African Dance and Drum benefit for the Haitian Health Foundation, when I began getting phone calls asking if I was okay?  As far as I knew, my head was still attached, my legs were sore still from dancing, and my fingers were still flying over the keyboard; yes I was fine.  Well according to a mass email (it was even sent to my ex-husband who I haven't spoken to in years) I was stranded in the UK and needed 2 grand to get home!  So, now my account is hopefully frozen until Yahoo (whose customer service is far from Yahooeyish) can sort through the mess and I have no access to my sent mail or contacts.   Naturally close friends and family realize this is a scam but what about the Colleges who called me asking why I had emailed them a request for money.  Or worse what about the Colleges I applied to for teaching positions and they will not be able to contact me!  (I am optimistic at least one of them wants to hire me). 

So, I have spent the day trying to rectify this.  The most frustrating issue was they changed my password and I can do nothing about eliciting my business contacts.  It is a reminder that our privacy is vamoosed--poof--gone!  I realize this is terribly self centered of me to be so  furious when there are those in Haiti without food let alone email and contact information.  So, I will leave it at that and start over.  Any thoughts on this issue?  

karen