[nabs-l] did anybody happen to see any messages sent on my Behalf?

Thu Jun 28 18:05:29 UTC 2012

I just wanted to clear something up, because people are throwing around 
words and it's totally off.
First, people very rarely sit around and just crack random gmail 
passwords. A good password is nice because this happens, but it's not to 
often. Generally spam happens because you have a virus that did a couple 
of things. Either it just uses your email client (why bother trying to 
get your password when that's already available), or it will just wait 
for you to log into something and send your info off to something. There 
are also botnets, where people can rent out computers. Someone just 
connects, pays $10 for 500 computers for 30 seconds or something and 
uploads their program, then it runs and that's that. This is also 
because of a virus.

If you think you have issues with your email client, virus scan (I use 
security essentials as well as malwarebytes), then change your password. 
Identity theft is something different altogether. Someone gets your 
credit card/social and uses that.
On 6/28/2012 11:54 AM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
> Humberto,
> If anyone contacted you, it was probably off list.
> If you think identity theft is going on, contact your email provider 
> about it.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Humberto Avila
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 1:05 AM
> To: blindTlk at nfbNet.org ; nfbWaTlk at nfbNet.org ; nabs-l at nfbNet.org ; 
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> Subject: [nabs-l] did anybody happen to see any messages sent on my 
> Behalf?
>
> Hello everybody:
>
>
>
> My sincere apologies for cross posting this message to all lists I'm
> subscribed to, and also if I am off topic.
>
> I wanted to write in regards to a recent activity I have seen on 
> listserves,
> where apparently a member of the list sends an email message with no 
> subject
> and a strange link in the body of the message. Unless that member really
> intended to send the message, someone hacking e-mail accounts probably
> causes this and it is spreading spam. Did anyone happen to see any 
> message
> that looks strange or with no subject, under my name or email address?
>
>
>
> I am not someone who is just wanting to scream out and share widely my
> findings just because I find this kind of stuff on any list, nor am I the
> moderator what so ever. However, the reason I am asking this question is
> because, this evening, I happen to look at my account activity under my
> gMail account and something noticed my attention.
>
> As I was looking at the last activity, a saw a table with 3 columns and
> about 12 or so rows. The table summarizes the type of activity, 
> whether it
> is use of browser, mail client, or some other, then a row with the 
> location
> and IP address, and the date and time accessed. Usually, this lists my
> preferred methods of accessing gmail, which is through outlook and 
> firefox,
> and then the IP address of my computer which was pretty much the same. 
> Under
> the location row, the page displays the info in the form, for example,
> "united States (WA) (66.189.2.)", meaning that is coming from Washington
> State in the USA, and is my computer's IP address. However, in one of the
> rows, the information displayed was something like "United States (CA)
> (66.200.)". It appears that somebody from California had access to my
> account and this is not my IP address.
>
>
>
> Back on topic for these lists, blind people are getting more and more 
> access
> to technology and information as well as the sighted population in this
> world. We use e-mail every day to communicate as well as social media.
> Therefore, fellow blind computer users, I would like to give you a 
> piece of
> recommendation to you out of courtesy. If you notice something spreading
> like this across your contacts (this includes e-mail addresses of 
> lists you
> put out as contacts in your webmail address book), like this "no
> subject-and-link" thing, please check your webmail site for your last
> account activity, or whatever is called on your specific webmail 
> provider or
> email provider. To you gMail users, look for the text, "last account
> activity" on any page and there should be any link there to take you 
> to the
> activity using whatever page view you prefer using, either Basic html or
> Standard. To all others, look for a similar text under your webmail pages
> and see if you notice any unusual activity like this.
>
>
>
> This may be that some clever spammer is breaking into your account and 
> knows
> how to get your password. If so, please change your password so this does
> not happen.
>
>
>
> I am only sending this out for your information and to make sure there 
> is no
> further identity theft if this is to continue in more depth. We should
> protect our accounts, not just our e-mail accounts, so that these 
> things do
> not occur in the future. If you see any suspicious activities, please 
> take
> action.
>
>
>
> Again, thank you for reading this and I am sorry if this goes too 
> off-topic.
> If you want to reply about this matter, please do so off-list.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Humberto
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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