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gbarrow2
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Gmail blocked access to my account and forced me to change my password.
They sent this message:
Hi gene,
Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account - barrowgene@gmail.com.
We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:
Sunday, July 21, 2013 9:54:30 AM UTC
IP Address: 37.232.211.151
Location: Novocheboksarsk, Chuvashia, Russia
If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately.
Any other GMCnetters have this happen?
What does/can a thief gain by accessing random gmail accounts?
Gene Barrow
Lake Almanor, Ca.
1976 Palm Beach
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| Re: Gmail [message #215200 is a reply to message #215197] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 09:24  |
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Richard Andis
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Be careful. Sometime hackers will send e-mails similar to this. It will look like an offical email coming from Google however it will include a link for you to click and change your password. That link sends you what looks like a genuine Google site but all it is doing is harvesting your gmail id and password. Never click on the link. Best to go directly via a saved shortcut or type in the address manually.
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| Re: Gmail [message #215209 is a reply to message #215200] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 11:26 |
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| Richard Andis wrote on Sun, 21 July 2013 07:24 |
Be careful. Sometime hackers will send e-mails similar to this. It will look like an offical email coming from Google however it will include a link for you to click and change your password. That link sends you what looks like a genuine Google site but all it is doing is harvesting your gmail id and password. Never click on the link. Best to go directly via a saved shortcut or type in the address manually.
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Totally agree, sounds like phishing. Never follow a link in this sort of message, go to your account in the usual manner and try to log in, odds are everything is fine. If you already followed the link and changed your password, go to your account immediately, log in, and change it again.
Phishers steal accounts so that they have valid accounts that they can use to spam others. If they get hold of your account and reset the password, you'll never be able to get it back or cancel it. Good luck.
1977 Birchaven, Lynnwood WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: Gmail [message #215215 is a reply to message #215197] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 12:41 |
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Richard RV
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| gbarrow wrote on Sun, 21 July 2013 07:05 |
What does/can a thief gain by accessing random gmail accounts?
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Gene,
Possibly nothing, but if there's more info in your email than untraceable GMC chatter, than there's a possibility they can get to other accounts to control. Whether it's financial, personal ID or simply controlling a legitimate email address for spam purposes, it has value to a hacker.
As the desk sergeant said on the TV show Hill Street Blues:
Sergeant Phil Esterhaus: Hey, let's be careful out there.
Richard
'77 Birchaven TZE...777;
'76 Palm Beach under construction;
‘76 Edgemont waiting its turn
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gmail [message #215221 is a reply to message #215197] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 13:29 |
Ronald Pottol
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They can send a bogus email to everyone in your contact list saying you got
robbed in some foreign land, and to please wire some cash. It does happen.
On Jul 21, 2013 7:05 AM, "gene barrow" <barrowgene@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gmail blocked access to my account and forced me to change my password.
>
> They sent this message:
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> Hi gene,
>
> Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google
> Account - mailto:barrowgene@gmail.com.
>
> We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to
> access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:
>
> Sunday, July 21, 2013 9:54:30 AM UTC
> IP Address: 37.232.211.151
> Location: Novocheboksarsk, Chuvashia, Russia
>
> If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else might be
> trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset
> your password immediately.
>
> Any other GMCnetters have this happen?
> What does/can a thief gain by accessing random gmail accounts?
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>
> --
> Gene Barrow
> Lake Almanor, Ca.
> 1976 Palm Beach
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| Re: Gmail [message #215228 is a reply to message #215197] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 15:25 |
George Beckman
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| gbarrow wrote on Sun, 21 July 2013 07:05 |
They sent this message:
Hi gene,
Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account - barrowgene@gmail.com.
Any other GMCnetters have this happen?
What does/can a thief gain by accessing random gmail accounts?
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A couple of other helps in these situations.
1. Hover the mouse over the link: "WellsFargo" and see what it says; somewhere in most mail and browsers the address will appear as you hover. It is very telling. (don't ever click on them as others said.)
2. In this gmail case Check your Gmail account and see if the password is really changed.
3. Often, the "Wells Fargo" link goes to some temporary server that looks like your bank or whatever. You put in your user name and password and it says "oops, try again".
At this point they will send you to the real "Wells Fargo",you log in, check what ever they suggested needed checking and all seems well.
The trouble is,that the temporary server just got your user name and password.
In this gmail case if you had an oops in the middle of the change process, I would think about changing it again from your normal Google mail link.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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