Monday, April 25, 2011

That ain't no ham, Google!

In the last five days I have received Spam Emails from 3 Gmail accounts that are in my contact list. Yesterday my account has been compromised and used for sending Spam.

To check whether your account has been logged in to from unusual places, scroll to the bottom of your Gmail website and locate the text "Last account activity". There's a details-link next to it, revealing in my case :

Mobile Peru (190.42.51.51) Apr 25 (12 hours ago)

If you have received any email from my email account that contained a link without any explanatory text, please delete it at once - most of those links redirect you to online pharmacy / viagra stores. The most original feedback I got was :
It actually gave me visa/mastercard numbers for 34 unique numbers. Thanks! Vegas here I come.

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