Friday, 27 May 2011

IMPORTANT - MY EMAIL HAS BEEN COMPROMISED

Hi everyone. Just a note to say that my Gmail account got spoofed (which, is totally different from hacked, so my email account is ok now I've switched passwords and deleted contacts lists I think - the things you learn in times of technological disaster).

Please don't open any email you receive from bakerjodie at googlemail dot com today and don't click on any links within those emails. If you have Gmail accounts please report these emails as Spam using the 'Report as Spam' button at the top of your Inbox. If you receive anything dodgy after this moment in time (12:11 GMT) please let me know.

5 comments:

Stefanie said...

That stinks about your email account getting spoofed. What a pain to sort it all out!

Doret said...

I am usually very good at catching fake sends. But I opened this one. I just did a virus scan. It was clean. Or at least that's what I was told.

How did you figure out your email was spoofed?

Vasilly said...

Oh no! Thanks horrible! I'm glad you were able to realize that it happened.

litlove said...

That happened to my yahoo mail a few weeks ago! Grrrr! But yay that I finally seem to be accepted by blogger again!

Jodie said...

Thanks for your nice comments everyone.

Doret I got a lot of bounce backs from account in my address book that don't work anymore (good thing I don't clean my contacts out regularly). Checked the net for hacking and found out about spoofing (which is quite common and Google suggests unpreventable).

litlove blogger is being really weird with my comments too. Not sure if it's something left over from the fall over it did a couple of weeks ago.