John, at long last I confess to having been taken in by a phishing email ... I should have known so much better. Thanks for your helpful reply ... you are quite right.
I have just spent the day changing the passwords on the many email accounts I maintain ...almost all are for testing only but I do not want to allow these *unpleasant people* (substitute the foulest alternative that comes to your mind) to make good on their theft. Again with thanks, Alan On Mar 6, 4:07 am, BluesRenegade <[email protected]> wrote: > alanrf wrote: > > The only place I ever use my Gmail account is in this forum and to > > test the GMail add-on. > > > It is clear that my address has been harvested from here and I just > > noticed I am getting large volumes of spam on GMail which I never see > > because I never log on to the Web interface. > > > Today I received a warning from GMail telling me my account was about > > to be blocked for "unusual activity" and a laundry list of possible > > reasons. Since I have not sent or received any messages (apart from > > about 10 or so spams per day) the "inappropriate use" reason cannot > > apply. > > > It occurred to me that they might just objecting to the accesses of > > the GMail add-on which is activated every time I open Thunderbird. If > > so then others might be seeing the same warning from Gmail. > > > Anyone else seeing them? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > > That notice was Phishing to steal our Google identities!! It was > cleverly made to look authentic by capturing the source code and images > of the real Google login screen. > > I got the same notice, which to me was highly suspect, so I viewed All > Headers and it appeared to originate fromwww.speakeasy.netand > mx.google.com (Mexico?). As far as I'm concerned that notice is bogus, > so I logged in on the Google web site and marked it there as Spam so > Google would hopefully catch wind of it (at least hope their Spam filter > is downstream of the stench coming off of that junk mail). > > John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
