* Originally in WIN95
* Crossposted in FIDONEWS
* Crossposted in Z1C
* Crossposted in MATZDOBRE

Hello All!

Some of you may have not, some of you might have..

Some China Man managed to guess or hack my password on GMAIL on Tuesday, using
the contact list on the WEB GUI, sent SPAM out to people in my contact list
and separate lists they call recent contact and most contacted. The email
appeared to come from me saying I got an Ipad and to visit a specific
website.. I even got one to my main email address. The English used was poorly
constructed.

I received several bounce messages, fortunately those folks had abandoned
those email addresses since the time I had used the Web GUI on a regular
basis, I almost exclusively use Gmail via POP3.

Poor Jeff Guerdat got spammed by my China Man!

I changed my password to a mixed case alpha-numeric combo, which should make
it harder to guess this time and I changed the lost password challenge
question.

I also deleted all the contacts, but if you have a web based email account,
check the strength of your password..

==
Ross
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