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Old Jul 4, 2019 | 11:48 pm
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dioxide45
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Well, I closed my MyPoints account. I had a significant number of points in there but my email was hacked and the account cleaned out and all the points redeemed for $58 in Amazon.com gift certificates. The key here is, don't use the same password for MyPoints (or other accounts) that you use for your email account. I suspect this came from a Yahoo breach and once they accessed my email account they saw the MyPoints BonusMails and then proceeded to login to MyPoints and do the redemptions.

I have found going through the daily emails more of a chore lately and decided to cut my losses and not bother anymore. The lack of 5 point click throughs also makes it so much longer to earn enough points to get anything. We will shift our shopping through other online malls as we have been doing with most purchases anyway. I was only earning points from the clickthroughs lately anyway.
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