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

Thu Jun 28 18:12:30 UTC 2012

Tyler;

I understand where you are coming from. But, don't you think that it's
even remotely possible for identity theft to happen with only email
info. All a person needs nowadays is your name, date of birth, and
social security number. If, all this is in your account (which
everything is besides your ss number) then they have a path to go
down. If you're more comfortable talking about it offlist, feel free
to write me privately (and that goes for anyone).

On 6/28/12, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> 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 ;
>> GUI-talk at nfbNet.org ; nfbcs at nfbNet.org ; musicTlk 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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