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crazyflyingdonut

Google Notification I got... what does it even mean, and am I affected?

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So I just checked my email for the very first time in a while, and I apparently got an email from Google on January 3rd. Apparently something affected Google+. I vaguely remember signing up to Doomworld with my Google account, back in July of 2018. What does this have to do with Doomworld? I don't know, but the email's attachment had "Doomworld" written on it, so it's gotta be something.

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37 minutes ago, crazyflyingdonut said:

I don't know, but the email's attachment had "Doomworld" written on it, so it's gotta be something.

 

Well... maybe open it?

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Sounds like a phishing attempt to me, I wouldn't go opening up random attachments. Most companies will never send you an attachment, and if they do, I wouldn't trust that company. At most, if your account was compromised, google would send you an email asking you to sign in, and send you an email directly to your account.

 

Last month I got an email from some european asshole with my gmail address and an old password. He said he had hacked my camera and I had 36 hours to respond and send him $1200 in bitcoins or he would send a video of me watching porn to everyone in my gmail contacts list. I'm assuming he bought a list of addresses and hacked passwords, but I haven't used that one for a few years. 10 days ago he sent me another threatening email. Jokes on him, my PC doesn't even have a webcam.

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5 minutes ago, Jello said:

Last month I got an email from some european asshole with my gmail address and an old password. He said he had hacked my camera and I had 36 hours to respond and send him $1200 in bitcoins or he would send a video of me watching porn to everyone in my gmail contacts list. I'm assuming he bought a list of addresses and hacked passwords, but I haven't used that one for a few years. 10 days ago he sent me another threatening email. Jokes on him, my PC doesn't even have a webcam.

After the Ashley Madison hack I got an email in my sock account saying they were gonna expose my activity to my family there if I didn't pay them so many bitcoins. I only signed up a fake account to show my wife at the time how 99% of the profiles there were either spam accounts or desperate dudes. Plus my reputation is pure shit anyway, so that would be the least of my concerns. I lol'd so hard.

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Never open attachments from anyone who isn't a friend you trust. And even then chance is they can send it to you in much better ways than an email.. so never open attachments. 

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15 hours ago, Jello said:

Last month I got an email from some european asshole with my gmail address and an old password. He said he had hacked my camera and I had 36 hours to respond and send him $1200 in bitcoins or he would send a video of me watching porn to everyone in my gmail contacts list. I'm assuming he bought a list of addresses and hacked passwords, but I haven't used that one for a few years. 10 days ago he sent me another threatening email. Jokes on him, my PC doesn't even have a webcam.

I got that same email, with an old password, and I also have no camera on my PC.  I haven't gotten that second email yet.

 

On topic: I agree with the advice to be very wary of opening attachments.  Also, if your bank sends an email asking for personal information like your account number, that is NOT your bank because banks never ever do that.

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3 hours ago, Empyre said:

I got that same email, with an old password, and I also have no camera on my PC.  I haven't gotten that second email yet.

 

On topic: I agree with the advice to be very wary of opening attachments.  Also, if your bank sends an email asking for personal information like your account number, that is NOT your bank because banks never ever do that.

Right, because if it's from your bank, they already have your account number. It's amazing that people still fall for it.

 

And I'm sure you'll get that second email soon. I feel kind of bad for him, because he's obviously from some Eastern European shithole of a country and the only way he can get money is by trying to scam people. He even said that his "Trojan" he installed on my computer lets him know when I've read his emails. Well, most email services have that ability, it's called "Notify When Read" or "Request a Read Receipt". 

 

Don't trust anything you get on the internet from people you don't know, and double check if it's from someone you do know. I figured this was common knowledge from 1998. When I first got the internet, and I realized there's a shitload of assholes out there who are trying to scam you.

 

And I read a rather amusing thread on Fark a few months ago detailing this same scam. Some folks who worked in IT were talking about it, and they said there were two kinds of people who got this email: One was a person saying "What kind of scam is this? Do I need to change any passwords?" The others were people who didn't send an email, because they didn't want to leave a digital trail, they walked over to IT and asked them "What kind of information do they have?"

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On 1/17/2019 at 5:18 AM, Johnatone said:

Plus my reputation is pure shit anyway, so that would be the least of my concerns. I lol'd so hard.

 

Sounds familiar, mine is also pure trash, that's the last thing I'd be concerned about.

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