On 12/09/2010 07:22 AM, Ross Cassell -> All wrote:
 RC> * Originally in WIN95
 RC> * Crossposted in FIDONEWS
 RC> * Crossposted in Z1C
 RC> * Crossposted in MATZDOBRE

 RC> Hello All!

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

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

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

 RC> Poor Jeff Guerdat got spammed by my China Man!

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

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

I received one of those spams and had a good laugh about it. I couldn't
imagine how or why you would consider such emails appropriate, so I figured it
must have been hijacked.

The same thing happened to a good friend of mine who was teaching in China at
the time. Everyone on his list got invites to a dating site. He has some very
important people on his list and it was quite a problem for him.

Ed

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