Hello TBUDL'ers, A few days ago I received an email from a very dear friend requesting an urgent favor. She was in need of five gift cards ASAP and couldn't get them herself as she was suffering from a sinus infection. She is the type of person who would put herself in the position of needing presents for friends post haste. Her request was not out of the ordinary. I immediately went to my local CVS pharmacy and bought five Apple gift cards. Never having done this before I had no idea how to get them to her. However, her instructions were to photograph the cards and send her the photographs. Not a problem. I photographed each card separately and emailed the photos to her by replying to her original request. A grievous mistake as you'll see.
After a few hours I decided to call her to see if she had received the photos. As soon as she realized what I had done, she freaked out and said she had been hacked. Sure enough, when I looked at the sender's email address originally requesting the cards, it wasn't hers. I had fallen for a spoof email and sent negotiable photos worth $500 to bad actors. I immediately called Apple and the agent checked and saw that the cards had not been used yet so he was able to void all 5 cards. So the cards are no longer good and cannot be used. Hooray for my side! But I was out $500 and further checking with CVS Pharmacy and the credit card company (Visa) proved fruitless. The money was gone and could not be reimbursed. I made a stupid mistake and it cost me. Because of this I decided to change the "access password" on my TB! account, not necessarily out of fear that I might be in danger of hacking as well but more because I hadn't changed that password in years. After changing the password I realized I should have changed my email password instead of my TB! account password. So I put my account password back to what it was originally and changed my email password. Now every time I try to look at my mail, TB insists that I enter my account password, after which, everything is displayed normally. Anyone have any idea how I can get TB! to stop asking for my password every time? I all the years I've used TB! this has never happened. Of course in all those years I've never changed my account password either. Sometime later still licking my wounds I wondered how idiots like me could be automatically protected from this type of crime. It occurred to me that if TB! were to compare all incoming email addresses to my address book, those for which there wasn't a match could be displayed in red. Agreed, most of them wouldn't match and would be flagged in red but I wouldn't recognize or care about the sender anyway. Those would be discarded by me as they always are. But if I did recognize the sender and their address was displayed in red, I would know immediately something was amiss. Had this feature been implemented I would have seen that my friend's address was flagged which would have caused me to check it and I would have seen that it was not my friend's real address. If anyone knows how to get TB! to stop requiring my password every time I try to view my mail I'd sure appreciate knowing the fix. And I'd like to know what you think about automatically flagging unknown addresses. -- TIA, Jack LaRosa Using TB! 6.0.12 OS: Win 10 v6 Build: 9200 ________________________________________________ Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
