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Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 9:55:39 AM   
angelikaJ


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Status: offline 		On the bottom of the gmail page you have the option of linking to a page that shows your recent account activity with your IP address location.
You can also select the option to receive notification in the event of suspicious account activity.

Here is what the Gmail blog says.





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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:03:04 AM   
pahunkboy


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Status: offline 		Is it me- or is the IP addy thing creepy?

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:05:50 AM   
Smutmonger


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Status: offline 		It's a tracking method to find where a scammer may be posting from-using your account as a "proxy"

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:07:26 AM   
pahunkboy


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Status: offline 		SM, I do not offer my account as a proxy.

...-- if family got a very odd email- they could call me.

Even tho I am off beat- they would figure it out- (i hope)


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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:09:36 AM   
Smutmonger


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Status: offline 		You don't have to "offer" an account to a hacker-they just take it.

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:15:19 AM   
angelikaJ


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Smutmonger

You don't have to "offer" an account to a hacker-they just take it.


This actually happened to a friend of mine last week.
The hacker sent an email to everyone in her contact list stating she was standed in another country and needed money to get home.

PA, there are programs that will tell you where someone is posting from by plugging in the email header.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-source-IP-address 
In this gmail application though, the person who is accessing the information regarding  your IP is you. :)


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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:20:32 AM   
Rule


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Status: offline 		Thank you. As it happens I last December received an e-mail sent by an acquaintance asserting that he had been stranded in London and asking for money - in bad Dutch. I comprehended that someone in London had hacked my acquaintance's gmail and I alerted him through another, mutual acquaintance. So apparently this hacker has been hacking lots of gmail accounts.

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:21:36 AM   
domiguy


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Status: offline 		there is another thing...maybe you shouldn't open mail coming from unknown sources.

A friend got hacked. We all received mail from him concerning his great purchase of a new i-phone.

The writing was friendly and up beat and ended with, "take care...Hope you enjoy the phone as much as I have."


Shouldn't be too much of a stretch to realize that none of my friends speak in this manner. He immediately received a pile of mail from his friends saying that he sucked for getting hacked...It was actually kind of funny.

had to change his account.

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 10:47:35 AM   
brainiacsub


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Smutmonger

You don't have to "offer" an account to a hacker-they just take it.

This is very true.

FYI interested parties - If you have an open Internet connection, that is all hackers need to hijack your email account. You can greatly reduce the chances of being hacked simply by disconnecting from the Internet when not in use for long periods of time, especially over night.

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 11:00:23 AM   
pahunkboy


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Status: offline 		I had a domain stolen once.

Since then- I -- dont get too exiting about- owning a website.

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RE: Public Service Announcement re: Gmail - 4/13/2010 12:33:47 PM   
thishereboi


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Maybe I am just the suspicious sort, but if someone I know, emails asking for money, I am going to call them on the phone and confirm it's them before I do anything. If I can't get a hold of them, I guess they are just screwed because I don't send money to anyone on the internet.


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