RE: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues
Hi Terri, You definitely want to ignore and dlete these emails asking you to change your Wallmart password. One of my employees has also been getting these even though we are in Canada where the website is Walmart.ca and not wallmart.com. They are attempts to get people to click on the links, you'll be directed to some website that may look like Wallmart but which is not, then you enter your user name and password or change your password and at that point you have shared your login credentials with whoever is behind the scam and they can now login and place orders. Never click on anything unless you know you have just deliverately requested an email reset from some company, but then you do that and the email for it usually arrives in seconds; anything you receive without asking for it goes into the Trash. The same applies to unsolicited phone calls especially those where some guy claims he is from Microsoft and that they have identified a threat to your computer and you have to give them access to your computer right now so they can fix it. I always wonder how naive people can be to fall for stuff like that, but I guess often older people or people who just have no interest in learning about technology do fall for it often enough. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 5:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues Hello, Rob This is what I thought as well. But my friend doesn't know a lot about technology. So he tells me the messages or the text, are coming from Google. But I never thought that would happen like that. I know personally right now, I am getting emails that appeared to be from Walmart, and they are giving me codes and telling me to change my password or saying that it is easy to change my password. Then it says if you did not request this change go to help. This is happened to me twice now in the last few days. So something is definitely going on somewhere. I just don't have enough knowledge to know what it is, or what to do about it. Though I do have more knowledge than my friend. We don't hear in account, we don't hear any accounts actually. So I find it odd that we are both having some sort of issues like this. If you have any more suggestions, that would be very much appreciated. It seems like if he doesn't change his password, he stops getting email on his phone. His phone is the only thing he has to get email on. And that was supposed to be, we do not share any accounts. Thank you very much. Terri Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:09 AM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone > wrote: > > Fishing scam, and giving the new password the perpetrator will then use to > hack the account. > - Original Message - > From: "Terri Stimmel" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:35 PM > Subject: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues > > > Hello everybody, > Mulein have a question for a friend. I'm hoping someone might have some ideas > as to what could be going on. > My friend is not blind. He uses an iPhone 6s, with the latest update. He has > a GL account. > For the last week or so, he keeps getting a text message saying he needs to > change his password, and he gets a code he is supposed > to type in. > He types this code in the change password area. Eclipse telling him that he > needs to change his password, because there is a > problem. But from what he can tell me, it does not tell him what the issue > is. We were wondering if somebody could be trying to get > into his account? > > What could be going on? > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Any thoughts, or suggestions, would be very much appreciated! > > Thank you, > > Terri > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >
Re: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues
Hello, Rob This is what I thought as well. But my friend doesn't know a lot about technology. So he tells me the messages or the text, are coming from Google. But I never thought that would happen like that. I know personally right now, I am getting emails that appeared to be from Walmart, and they are giving me codes and telling me to change my password or saying that it is easy to change my password. Then it says if you did not request this change go to help. This is happened to me twice now in the last few days. So something is definitely going on somewhere. I just don't have enough knowledge to know what it is, or what to do about it. Though I do have more knowledge than my friend. We don't hear in account, we don't hear any accounts actually. So I find it odd that we are both having some sort of issues like this. If you have any more suggestions, that would be very much appreciated. It seems like if he doesn't change his password, he stops getting email on his phone. His phone is the only thing he has to get email on. And that was supposed to be, we do not share any accounts. Thank you very much. Terri Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:09 AM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone > wrote: > > Fishing scam, and giving the new password the perpetrator will then use to > hack the account. > - Original Message - > From: "Terri Stimmel" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:35 PM > Subject: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues > > > Hello everybody, > Mulein have a question for a friend. I'm hoping someone might have some ideas > as to what could be going on. > My friend is not blind. He uses an iPhone 6s, with the latest update. He has > a GL account. > For the last week or so, he keeps getting a text message saying he needs to > change his password, and he gets a code he is supposed > to type in. > He types this code in the change password area. Eclipse telling him that he > needs to change his password, because there is a > problem. But from what he can tell me, it does not tell him what the issue > is. We were wondering if somebody could be trying to get > into his account? > > What could be going on? > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Any thoughts, or suggestions, would be very much appreciated! > > Thank you, > > Terri > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
Re: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues
Fishing scam, and giving the new password the perpetrator will then use to hack the account. - Original Message - From: "Terri Stimmel" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:35 PM Subject: Question for a friend, regarding Gmail and password issues Hello everybody, Mulein have a question for a friend. I'm hoping someone might have some ideas as to what could be going on. My friend is not blind. He uses an iPhone 6s, with the latest update. He has a GL account. For the last week or so, he keeps getting a text message saying he needs to change his password, and he gets a code he is supposed to type in. He types this code in the change password area. Eclipse telling him that he needs to change his password, because there is a problem. But from what he can tell me, it does not tell him what the issue is. We were wondering if somebody could be trying to get into his account? What could be going on? Does anyone have any ideas? Any thoughts, or suggestions, would be very much appreciated! Thank you, Terri Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
