Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-15 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The trick is that any response tells them the have a live working account, that their message got through the spam filter, that a user actually read the message and took the time to reply. That's like gold in a spammer's list, which they can now sell as a top quality email address to the highes

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread Krysti .Power
yes i have my settings saved that way but it somehow got sent to my inbox On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:04 PM, The Believer wrote: >A shot in the dark that yielded results. Spam deserves the speediest of > responses. Straight to the trash bin. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread The Believer
A shot in the dark that yielded results. Spam deserves the speediest of responses. Straight to the trash bin. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/14/2014 8:02 AM, Krysti .Power wrote: yes but i figure they allready had my email address as i got

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread Krysti .Power
yes but i figure they allready had my email address as i got the email in the first place On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Krysti .Power wrote: > so i shouldnt of sent the email > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:48 AM, The Believer > wrote: > >>Smart move there. Yeah, real smart. They just ad

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread Krysti .Power
so i shouldnt of sent the email On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:48 AM, The Believer wrote: >Smart move there. Yeah, real smart. They just added one more viable > email address to their database. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 9/14/2014

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread The Believer
Smart move there. Yeah, real smart. They just added one more viable email address to their database. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/14/2014 7:44 AM, Krysti .Power wrote: i got one the other day saying i won 7.5M dollars reply to send the m

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread Krysti .Power
i got one the other day saying i won 7.5M dollars reply to send the money i sent an email back saying if you contact me again im contacting the police you fucking scammer sorry for the bad langue but thats what i sent back On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > True, I used to ge

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-14 Thread Jessica Moss
True, I used to get these off-the-wall messages, supposedly from friends of mine on facebook, telling me things like "I am making crazy money using this system," and would give me a link to click on, and I knew none of my friends would've written something like that, especially the one I got tha

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Joe Quinn
But I subsequently heard that all those addresses and passwords that were given out that Russian forum site, Google checked, and about 1 to 2% of those combinations of usernames and passwords actually worked. Sentapparently what it was was passwords that could've been used for a site like eHar

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread The Believer
But now they know that your address is a valid one. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/12/2014 6:41 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: I did also fill in the gmail adress. My email adress was not on the list of hacked gmail adresses. So nothing happen

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Terje Strømberg
I did also fill in the gmail adress. My email adress was not on the list of hacked gmail adresses. So nothing happened. Usually i never do this, but was curious. If it had bin a hacker site, they probably would say that my adress was on the list. So this time, i think we are good to go. In gener

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Dillon Collier
This web sight is a good way to get hacked I wouldn't mess with if I were u! dillon collier > On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:59 PM, The Believer wrote: > > And of course some of those emails look to be from a trusted source but > those sources were very likely to have been compromised. So b

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I guess I've learnt my lesson so I don't need any more of this. I thought since it came through macvisionaries it was probably believable. I was too silly to think that. So please don't rub it on. Many thanks Andrew On 12 Sep 2014, at 18:54, Todd W wrote: > It's certainly better to be safe t

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Just a for instance, it wouldn't take too much to embed your gmail address in the link so that clicking on it tells them you read their spam and are willing to click on strange links. That puts you on the A list they sell to other spammers. It's also possible the site will 'help' you fix your p

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread The Believer
And of course some of those emails look to be from a trusted source but those sources were very likely to have been compromised. So best bet is, if it looks and smells fishy, it is. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/12/2014 10:54 AM, Todd W w

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Todd W
It's certainly better to be safe than sorry. If an e-mail looks fishy, even if it's from an address you know, it probaly is... On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:07 PM, The Believer wrote: >Deleting spam without further ado is safe. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > ancient

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread The Believer
Deleting spam without further ado is safe. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/12/2014 9:48 AM, Eleanor Roberts wrote: Very interesting to read all the different points on this. But just one question, as someone who opened the e-mail but did no

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread The Believer
There is all sorts of hacking going on. But it makes absolutely no sense at all to go onto a strange web site and ewpose oneself to further hacking. Common sense dictates that one can simply change passwords by logging into legitimate web sites, in this case the Gmall site. Furthermore,

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Eleanor Roberts
Very interesting to read all the different points on this. But just one question, as someone who opened the e-mail but did not follow the link or go onto the website or anything will I have exposed any of my information to these potential hackers or not?? Just a bit concerned I may've done somet

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Todd W
Actually this one seems to be true. This leak has been reported by several news outlets in the past several days. Todd On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, The Believer wrote: >No, emails like this are never legit, never. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > ancient.ali

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread The Believer
No, emails like this are never legit, never. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/11/2014 11:29 PM, Eleanor Roberts wrote: Hi Andrew I had exactly the same e-mail. I haven't tried the website, but share your concerns completely. Could anyone el

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yep, I also got this message, it said 5 million gmail passwords were leaked, the best thing to do is delete these messages, and go to the gmail site directly if you are concerned. I put that message right where it belonged, in the trash. Original message: Listers, I think it was yesterday or

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-12 Thread Christine Grassman
>From Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/09/10/gmail_password_hack_russian_bitcoin_forum_leaks_credentials_but_most_google.html On Sep 12, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Listers, > > I think it was yesterday or the day before that I found among the messages

Re: warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-11 Thread Eleanor Roberts
Hi Andrew I had exactly the same e-mail. I haven't tried the website, but share your concerns completely. Could anyone else who is more in the know than me please confirm if this was legit or not?? As with Andrew, I too am worried that I may have revealed my address to a hacker. Thanks.

warning e-mail about gmail addresses leak

2014-09-11 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, I think it was yesterday or the day before that I found among the messages from the list an e-mail containing a warning of a possible leak of e-mail addresses from gmail. The messaged contained instructions on how to check whether one's e-mail was possibly compromised or not. The web