I'm not a spammer...honest!

[cjefferys]

Hi folks,
I just wanted to give people a heads up: if we have ever contacted each other via my gmail email address, you probably got a spam email this morning that looks like it came from me but it really wasn't me. It looks like someone hacked my gmail account and sent that crap to everyone on my address list. Arrrgh!

Saying that, does anyone have any tips? I just changed my password and will be running various virus, adware, etc programs I have to see if it helps. Has anyone had any experience with something like this?

Hopefully there won't be any more emails like this from "me".

[Megotu]

Darn it, NOW you tell me. And I just ordered the Special Weekend at the Bunny Ranch Cialis gift basket.

[cjefferys]

Crap, I hope I get a commission for that!


I changed my password, and a little while later Google informed me that someone at an IP address from China (China? What a shocker!) accessed my account, right around the same time all the emails were sent out. Hopefully changing my password fixed that. I never had my webmail hacked like that before, guess I should try changing my password more often.

[rche]

I knew something was amiss when I read the words "Hi dear..."

uh, yeah. Hi Chris. NOT

I hope it clears up for you.

[Brazoo]

That stinks. My cousin had this happen to him recently - I think he just followed the basic google FAQ.

A while after his facebook account got hacked too - maybe through info they got from hacking his email - or maybe the passwords he uses are just really dumb. In any case, you might want to keep an eye out for that kind of thing too if you had any other passwords in your email account for any reason.

[Toy Talk]

As much of a pain in rear-end as it is, I never save email addresses for this very reason. Even if my account does get hacked... nothing goes out, making my account worthless to spammers.