[SLL] Gmail Security Hole

Jerry Horvath jerroldhorvath at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 10:23:09 PDT 2007


John,

It's definitely him.  The message contained some personal stuff that I
did not include in my post to SLL.  He also sent attachments of his
screen display that displayed my Gmail in-box.  He sent me copies of
my in-box immediately after he sent messages to me.

Regards,

Jerry

On 6/1/07, johnbaxterlists at mac.com <johnbaxterlists at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 1, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Jerry Horvath wrote:
>
> > Any comments will be appreciated.  What follows is an E-Mail from
> > my brother:
>
> Unless you can tell from your brother's message that it was really
> sent by him, I would suggest you phone him and verify.
>
> This has some of the characteristics of a hoax message sent by
> someone else forging your brother's email.
>
>    --John
>
>


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Jerry Horvath

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