Stereo Interactive & Design » gmail http://stereointeractive.com/blog Development Blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Gmail Spam from ui-mall.com — Don’t fall for it! http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2008/11/13/gmail-spam-from-ui-mallcom-dont-fall-for-it/ http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2008/11/13/gmail-spam-from-ui-mallcom-dont-fall-for-it/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:58:54 +0000 Scott Meves http://stereointeractive.com/blog/?p=80 A friend’s gmail password was either cracked or stolen somehow and his account started sending out mass messages to his contacts. The message contains the following:

Hey friend,

How are you doing recently? I’d like to introduce you a very good foreign trading online company and the website is www.ui-mall.com

It can offer you so many kinds of electronic products which you may be in need,such as laptops, gps, TV, cell phones, ps, MP3/4, motorcycles even several kinds of musical instruments and etc..

You can take some time to have a check ,there must be something you are interested in and you ‘d like to purchase .

The contacts:
MSN: uimall@hotmail.com
Email: uimall@188.com

Hoping you can enjoy your shopping from that company !

Regards

I googled this and couldn’t find any other posts about it. Looking at the headers it appears these messages aren’t just spoofing the “from:” header, but are actually being sent through gmail. The script is also replying blinding to any messages I send to him with the same body copy.

If anyone else sees this happening please post a comment!

Update: This thread mentions to check your gmail Vacation responder settings and clear out any text that may be hidden there.

Update 2: If you need help with changing your password, visit My account has been compromised in the Gmail help center.

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