Help! - Messenger Hijack?

[Andrew Wilkins]

My brother has just found that one of his friends has received an insulting
message supposedly from him. He is adamant it was not sent by him and he
suspects that someone has hijacked his messenger account. Is this possible?
How can he stop someone from doing this?

The recipient of the message is very distraught.

Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Andrew,

Well there are a lot of possibilities here; he should change his password at least:
https://login.passport.com/ChangePW.srf
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"Andrew Wilkins" > wrote in message
...
> My brother has just found that one of his friends has received an insulting
> message supposedly from him. He is adamant it was not sent by him and he
> suspects that someone has hijacked his messenger account. Is this possible?
> How can he stop someone from doing this?
>
> The recipient of the message is very distraught.
>
> Thanks in advance.