On 12/09/2010 07:22 AM, Ross Cassell -> All wrote:   
    RC> * Originally in WIN95   
    RC> * Crossposted in FIDONEWS   
    RC> * Crossposted in Z1C   
    RC> * Crossposted in MATZDOBRE   
      
    RC> Hello All!   
      
    RC> Some of you may have not, some of you might have..   
      
    RC> Some China Man managed to guess or hack my password on GMAIL on Tuesday,   
    RC> using the contact list on the WEB GUI, sent SPAM out to people in my   
    RC> contact list and separate lists they call recent contact and most   
    RC> contacted. The email appeared to come from me saying I got an Ipad and   
    RC> to visit a specific website.. I even got one to my main email address.   
    RC> The English used was poorly constructed.   
      
    RC> I received several bounce messages, fortunately those folks had   
    RC> abandoned those email addresses since the time I had used the Web GUI on   
    RC> a regular basis, I almost exclusively use Gmail via POP3.   
      
    RC> Poor Jeff Guerdat got spammed by my China Man!   
      
    RC> I changed my password to a mixed case alpha-numeric combo, which should   
    RC> make it harder to guess this time and I changed the lost password   
    RC> challenge question.   
      
    RC> I also deleted all the contacts, but if you have a web based email   
    RC> account, check the strength of your password..   
      
   I received one of those spams and had a good laugh about it. I couldn't   
   imagine how or why you would consider such emails appropriate, so I figured it   
   must have been hijacked.   
      
   The same thing happened to a good friend of mine who was teaching in China at   
   the time. Everyone on his list got invites to a dating site. He has some very   
   important people on his list and it was quite a problem for him.   
      
   Ed   
      
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