You're welcome, Alan.
alanrf wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
