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An email account is a important place for communication and storing data files. Therefore, securing your email account is necessary. If your AOL account shows any suspicious activities, you need to rectify the situation immediately.
First, understand the signs to recognize a hacked account.
- Your contacts receive spam emails from your AOL account.
- Your account is receiving too many spam emails in your inbox.
- You cannot access your account even with the correct login address.
- Modification in the settings or information such as display name, email signature, or filters without your account's permission.
- Your account for AOL is not receiving emails.
- If you experience unusual logins in your account from locations you do not recognize.
- If you view contacts, you do not recognize them.
You need to immediately take the following actions to secure your account if you find any of these suspicious actions in your account.
- Change your AOL account password as soon as possible.
- Restore your changed account settings.
- Inform your contacts about it so that they can take action on their accounts.
- Keep your antivirus software updated.
- Update your account recovery options.
- Enable two-step authentication for improving account security.
Other Issues Faced By AOL Users
Apart from these problems, you may encounter issues such as,
- AOL is not loading emails in the required time.
- Receiving emails in the primary folder of the AOL mail service.
- Not displaying the image file correctly on the screen.
- Broken or unrecognizable fonts.
