• What the fuck happened to my gmail?
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So I opened my gmail this morning and was greeted by a message that google suspects my account has been compromised. They sent a code to my mobile phone so I can verify myself, and after all the procedures I got in only to find that somehow someone sent a bunch of chinese spam mail on my account (yes it was definitely sent from my account since it appears in Sent Mail). The account was used only by my ip's, the Activity Information window did not report anything fishy. So I suspected a virus, but upon scanning my computer, I found nothing, how in the fuck did this happen then? And am I safe now since I've changed my password?
Others have reported this too. China has been attacking google since they stopped censoring stuff there. So yeah, they are pretty pissed.
So it's not a virus? How in the fuck do they do this then? Google says nobody has logged in my account but me.
They probably got a bunch of peoples emails and passwords and just sent that out to people that were probably effected by it.
Fucking Chinese hackers... They're everywhere! Someone else reported the same thing a couple of days ago!
[QUOTE=Sporbie;22794188]So it's not a virus? How in the fuck do they do this then? Google says nobody has logged in my account but me.[/QUOTE] DO NOT OPEN THEM! My relatives have been affected by this. One of them got it and the virus basically used his email to send viruses to others. My mother's cousin got the virus and it basically took over his pc and used it as an "outpost" to send out more shit. He got a mail from Microsoft requesting that he should basically terminate the pc. I am not trying to be funny or dramatic or anything. This is true.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;22795162]DO NOT OPEN THEM! My relatives have been affected by this. One of them got it and the virus basically used his email to send viruses to others. My mother's cousin got the virus and it basically took over his pc and used it as an "outpost" to send out more shit. He got a mail from Microsoft requesting that he should basically terminate the pc. I am not trying to be funny or dramatic or anything. This is true.[/QUOTE] [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/422856813_4f91f7ab05.jpg[/img] Terminate. But yeah, don't read the emails just delete.
I think the guy from the other thread opened the emails to translate them! I mean [url="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=957170"]that[/url]
The emails don't have attachments or anything, just some chinese text, nothing else really.
[url]www.warpmail.net[/url] is what i suggest you use, or anything other than gmail or hotmail
[QUOTE=Sporbie;22796456]The emails don't have attachments or anything, just some chinese text, nothing else really.[/QUOTE] If you're interested, post it here and i'll translate it for you
I used google translate, it's some generic financial spam/hoax, doesn't really matter. I still don't know how the fuck did he use my account from my own ip, I'm 99.9% sure I don't have malware on my computer.
We should do a comparison and see if these people who are effected have anything in common.
[QUOTE=sbradford26;22799772]We should do a comparison and see if these people who are effected have anything in common.[/QUOTE] agreed!
I bet all those people look at porn. That is probably the easiest way to get a virus(or malware for those who care).
This is thread number 4 on the issue. I posted pictures of it in mine [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=957170[/url]
[b]As I said at the other thread:[/b] @all of these who face that issue: scan your computer for viruses, tell us the results and the name of your antivirus. And tell us which porn site you visit, so that we avoid it! Killman might be right...
I'm scared now. This has been happening to tons of other gmail accounts, so why not mine?
Don't do anything risky and it won't happen, I'm sure they aren't bruteforcing passwords.
China is invading Gmail
Did they send out an email saying "This is a test email" (or something like that) as the first email they sent? Because they sent an email saying that from my Gmail before I got rid of them.
[QUOTE=Legend286;22808235]Don't do anything risky and it won't happen, I'm sure they aren't bruteforcing passwords.[/QUOTE] keyloggers.
I scanned everything with both Avast and Spybot S&D, they found nothing. The attacks aren't coming from another IP, or so the activity screen suggests. The spam isn't directed at my contact list but rather at some random gibberish emails, most of which don't exist, because I got that Delivery Status Notification that it failed. [editline]01:27PM[/editline] I think I found out the problem, it's email spoofing, because the headers don't look like when I send the mails, also it says that the messages are sent from a PC in China, yet the activity monitor doesn't show anyone from china accessing my account. So that must mean it's spoofing, right?
[QUOTE=Sporbie;22821057]I scanned everything with both Avast and Spybot S&D, they found nothing. The attacks aren't coming from another IP, or so the activity screen suggests. The spam isn't directed at my contact list but rather at some random gibberish emails, most of which don't exist, because I got that Delivery Status Notification that it failed. [editline]01:27PM[/editline] I think I found out the problem, it's email spoofing, because the headers don't look like when I send the mails, also it says that the messages are sent from a PC in China, yet the activity monitor doesn't show anyone from china accessing my account. So that must mean it's spoofing, right?[/QUOTE] Use something like Hitman Pro just for a second opinion, since hitman prop sometimes finds stuff that AV's and malwarebytes misses during a scan.
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