Gmail spam catastrophe

[Guest FaX]

mental!

[Jambooo]

Wow LOL, thought I was the only one. I've been recieving many IDENTICAL e-mails to a few shown here.

Well.. at least GMail actually classes them as spam instead of dumping them in your inbox.

[tibi108]

OK, figure this security issue out. I just opened a gmail account and it was compromised to spammers immediately. I bought a gmeil invite on eBay and clicked on it. The Account opening was a normal as you would expect.

Several minutes after opening it I looked at

the sent mail folder. There was a sent email in it that was sent from

my name to my name. It was announcing my new gmail account. When I put

the cursor over my name in the To: field, it does not show my email

address, it shows an email address I never heard of

([email protected]). This domain is registered to someone in

Singapore.

This email was sent automatically when I opened my gmail account

through an invitation.

Has anyone else experienced this?

My account seems to have been compromised when I opened it. I sent an

email to google describing this problem and will not touch this account

until I understand why this happened.

Be careful, the gmail service seems to have been hacked somehow

585115194[/snapback]

You're such a cockmuncher. When you respond to an invite, and set up a Gmail account (note you need an invite to set one up), Gmail automatically sends the person who invites you an email to confirm your address.

That is the email you see, and nothing has beeen hacked.

[Timmah Veteran]

Lmfao. I'd love to see how it makes him a cockmuncher... but I'm too busy laughing my ass off.

[jamend]

You're such a cockmuncher.  When you respond to an invite, and set up a Gmail account (note you need an invite to set one up), Gmail automatically sends the person who invites you an email to confirm your address.

That is the email you see, and nothing has beeen hacked.

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I'm pretty sure he already knew that, and that you've managed to completely miss the issue that he brought up. He got an email from someone that was not "Gmail Team" after he made the account, which is indeed pretty weird and he was right in notifying Google about it. He didn't even say anything about inviting someone else and getting a reply for it.

[Timmah Veteran]

It is VERY odd this has happened though.

My girlfriend started getting IDENTICAL spam, and she hasn't used her Gmail for anything but talking with friends.

[RogueNW]

lmao at most of you guys...my gmail IS for spam.

[topher1078]

Is everyone missing the point? Who cares if Gmail gets lots of spam - as long as it properly sorts it (which so far it seems to do).

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I'm pretty sure he already knew that, and that you've managed to completely miss the issue that he brought up. He got an email from someone that was not "Gmail Team" after he made the account, which is indeed pretty weird and he was right in notifying Google about it. He didn't even say anything about inviting someone else and getting a reply for it.

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Um, actually, you missed the point, he didnt recieve a email, the signup process sent a e-mail to the person who gave him the invite, saying the account was created.

[905punk]

i got the same spam messages....hmm, How did these spammers get all of gmail.com's addresses ?? mine isnt posted anywhere i dont think, and if i do post its always in

user [at] domain [dot] com

format :D

[dotRoot]

i got the same spam messages....hmm, How did these spammers get all of gmail.com's addresses ?? mine isnt posted anywhere i dont think, and if i do post its always in

user [at] domain [dot] com

format :D

585137115[/snapback]

Brute force spamming most likely. Who cares anyway? Its in the spam folder anyway. So what's the big deal?

[amoeba]

Most simple forms of email address obfuscating don't work anymore or at least don't block all spam robots. The best way to not get your e-mail on a spammer's list is to never post it on a webpage.

[CloudEngineer]

your all having a sook over spam mail thats where it should be, IN THE SPAM FOLDER wtf r u all complaining for?

[jamend]

Um, actually, you missed the point, he didnt recieve a email, the signup process sent a e-mail to the person who gave him the invite, saying the account was created.

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No, that's still not what he described. He said the email was sent from his account to his account, except that the recipient email address wasn't his. It's still not normal behaviour.

[Rappy Veteran]

i got so much but opened another account for just sending mail the other can gather spam :)