Monday, April 19, 2010

We hate Spam


We just got Spammed. Big time. It looks like somebuddy hijacked our gmail email account because they made it look like we sent it. It all got blocked by our filter but we wanted to let you know if you see something that looks like junk and it looks like it's from us - Don't open it, 'cause it's not from us.

Idiots.

So. We set up a new gmail account. We have not deleted the old one yet until we figure out who we need to notify of our new email address.

Spam sux.

UPDATE: We got an alert from Google that an IP address than our own accessed our gmail (from NY) and they STRONGLY SUGGESTED that we change our password, which of course we did immediately. The Florida Furkids told us the same thing happened to them. Maybe everybuddy should change their passwords ASAP!

UPDATE 2: We deleted our old gmail account. Mom says it was creeping her out too much. We don't think it will effect our feeds, but we are having to build a new Reader list. ::sigh::

27 friends chimed in...:

  1. We just emailed you because we got one. We didn't open it and we will delete it right now.What pleasure do spammers get out of it? They are sad people.

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  2. We just received it now too. Those people should be strung up and stuck in prison on bread and water.

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  3. It makes you realise that there are people out there who really don't have anything constructive to do with their time. We have always believed that when such people are caught, they should be punished the medieval way, stocks in the town centre, so that people could actually tell them what they think (and throw rotten tomatoes at them!).

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  4. We'll be on the look out for any spam email, thanks for the heads up!

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  5. I emailed you, too..I'm sure sorry this happened to you! I'm gonna go change my password!

    I hope your Monday looks up, all you G's! And Whitey, too!

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  6. this happened recently to someone else me and my mommeh know. verreh scary that someone can just get into your emails like that.

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  7. We got the e-mail and knew right away what had happened, so we deleted it! We're very sorry that this happened to you.

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  8. Spammers suck! Don't they have anything better to do??

    We changed our gmail password just in case!

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  9. Someone else just mentioned they got something fro their gmail account too. GRRR. We hate having to change our passwords.

    I got spammed on my blog by Farmville...

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  10. We saw it was from "you" and we opened it before we realized it was spam. Uh oh...

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  11. We don't know why we didn't get the alert. Mom checked and we are supposed to get them :( Mom doesn't know if she should delete ours or just start a new one.

    Sniffie and the Florida Furkids

    pee ess - if you go to your activity details it shows when/where the hacker came from. Ours was Mobile in India

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  12. Must be something going on. My blog catche smost spam, and it's usually two to five a day. Today it has been over thirtyfive! I hate spam, too! Even the kind in the can!

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  13. That really blows! Some people REALLY must get a life! But as a precaution, mom changed hers too!

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  14. *sigh* Some beans just haf no conchuns. Hmm, maybe we should haf mom change da password on ours. Thanks fur da warning.

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  15. We didn't realize there might be a problem till we saw Sniffy's message on the CB. What a scary thing to have happen to you!

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  16. We hope you guys get this cleared up for good=hackers are terrible!...xo...Calle,Halle,Sukki

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  17. We did see both emails come in this morning. We did look at them but did not click on the link, thinking it was sent to us in error. We did not consider that it was spam. We are gonna go change our passwords...

    purrs
    >^,,^<
    Abby

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  18. I guess this happened to a lot of humans and kitties with gmail accounts. Definitely sux. :-(

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  19. Sorry you got spammed. Mum has her fingers crossed we are OK, but we only have one gmail account. All others are through our ISP.

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  20. I read about this on FB. I received the email from you, but I didn't open it. So sorry it happened. My mom is concerned about her new Droid phone because it runs on gmail accounts.

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  21. Thanks for letting us know! I dislike
    those kind of creepers and it feels
    icky when it happens! The best thing
    to do is let people know and Report
    it!

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  22. That happened to our mum's email a couple of months ago. It was a horrible feeling to know that some scumbag was using her name to send bad things to her friends. Can you imagine what these people could achieve if they put their energies into something positive?!

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  23. How awful. We haven't had this happen yet, and hope it nevr does.

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  24. That stinks that you got hit - we keep wondering if all this stuff is related to the Google password system break in we read about this morning. Google makes it sound like it isn't related but it would explain a lot. We hate that people are so jerky!

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