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Subject:Re: tw67syncro
From:Thomas Wilsher
Date:Mon, 9 May 2011 07:30:48 -0700

Paul/All

First of all, I'm sorry everyone's inbox got clogged up with spam when
my account got broken into. When I logged in on saturday Google had
detected that the account had been compromised and had locked my
account. I changed my google password and enabled 'always use HTTPS'
*and* 2-step verification. BTW, I highly recommend other GMail users
to do the same, as apparently a number of google mail accounts have
been compromised lately.

Between all the measures above there shouldn't have been any more spam
coming from my account, and I'm only seeing two spam emails that were
sent on saturday in my 'Sent' folder. If anyone has received any other
spam from my account since saturday I'd appreciate it if you could
forward me those emails as pmail, as in that case I will have to
follow up further with Google.

--Thomas

On 5/9/11, Paul <wognacious@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you I will keep that in mind next time. I believe that there was some
> more yesterday. The address had "syncro" in it, and more, but it looked
> kinda suspicious.
> Paul R
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This "crap" typically comes from a compromised email account.
>>
>> And the correct course of action is to trust that the list administrators
>> will deal with it at their earliest opportunity.
>> (As has been done.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jim Arnott
>> List Administrator
>> vanagon@gerry
>>
>>
>> On May 7, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Paul wrote:
>>
>>  Where's this crap coming from?
>>>
>>
>

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