Did a dumb thing - consequences?

boomerang

Lifer
Jun 19, 2000
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Yesterday morning I got an email from someone I have a business arangement with. The email said: 'You have a pending incoming docs shared with you via Dropbox' and provided a link. Clicking on that link took me to My Drive which is where I should have stopped. I am anticipating a large payoff from her and got all caught up in the possibility that it had something to do with that payoff but still, the poor grammer, the Dropbox reference with a redirect to My Drive should have raised red flags. What can I say?

I logged in giving my email, phone number and password to find that there was in fact no shared document. Suddenly, my brain kicked in and I realized that her gmail account had most likely been compromised. She confirmed this verbally shortly afterwards.

So anyway, prior to even hearing back from her I changed my gmail password. I had already set up two step authentication many months ago.

What if anything should I be concerned about at this point?
 

Elixer

Lifer
May 7, 2002
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Well, they can call you for any multitude of things...and most likely set you up to get more e-mails to try and get more info from you.

Other than that, since you already changed your password, not much else you can do.