Gmail account issues.

[de8212]

Went to log into my gmail account this morning and received this message.

Verify your account.
We've detected unusual activity on your account. To immediately restore access to your account, type your phone number below.

Is this new? I've never heard of it. Also, I really don't want to give out my cell phone #. Any way around it?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Works faster with bank account numbers.

 

[Vette73]

Stop using PASSWORD as your password and maybe you could have nice things.

 

[Skitzer]

Went to log into my gmail account this morning and received this message.



Is this new? I've never heard of it. Also, I really don't want to give out my cell phone #. Any way around it?

Was the message from Nigeria?

 

[RavenSEAL]

I recieved an email from privacy@notanigerianscam.org the other day asking me for my personal information so the FBI could investigate an issue with my bank account...lol.

 

[BTA]

Yes it is real, someone(hacked by chinese) has gotten into your account and is sending out spam from it most likely.

Usually because you have a trojan/virus on your machine or you logged into your email from a machine that does.

 

[rcpratt]

Happened to me a few weeks ago. Someone got into my account and sent like 100 spam messages overnight.

 

[DesiPower]

I always felt gmail was the most hacked/spammed email service, yahoo ftw imho

 

[Spacehead]

My mom had some issues with some site wanting her phone number, wasn't Gmail though. Wasn't even a site where she had to log into, just looking for something (mapquest maybe?).
Anyway, several days later i was over there & there was an ask.com toolbar installed along with several other things installed (some weather program & something else). Mom never installed those thing but her grandkids had been on the computer recently, Facebook & such.

All scans came up empty & i un-installed everything without any problems.

Look for any unusual programs in add/remove list & run AV & spyware scans just to be sure.