<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 1:02 AM, Bill Kendrick <<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:35:26PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:<br>> Couple of times in the last few days somebody just<br>> used my gmail account to send garbage to my gmail<br>> acct. address book entries.
<br>><br>> What can I do about it?<br><br></div>Just to be sure, is it _actually_ coming from your gmail account?<br>Or does it simply _purport_ to be coming from your gmail account,<br>and happens to be going to people you know?
<br>(That is, forging the "From" address, which is about as far as most people<br>notice when they look at email.)<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Whether or not it _is_ your account, I assume you changed your password on gmail? I doubt they've been hacked into or we'd have heard of it, but it isn't impossible that someone guessed your password. Besides, it's easy to change so what the heck?
<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.