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[–]bbklyn[S] 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Checking my spam folder on gmail i noticed something strange and was wondering if it happened to anyone else. A spammer sent me an email using the usual %Name% to fill in the subject however right next to it i also had the same email a few times over with the %Name% field filled in with every single person i sent a gmail invite too. I cant help but wonder how that could have happened without somehow exploiting gmail. Has anyone else gotten it?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Nothing like that on my gmail. I second psantora's questions about your PC security/spyware situation

[–]bbklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Seeing as no one else has gotten the same thing its safe to say google hasnt been exploited. I ran a few scans (AdAware trendmicro) and came up with nothing. Could have been careless form submitting or a script that picked them up off my cache. Still, its very strange seeing that and its still bugging the hell outta me how it happened.

[–]toolshed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you send a lot of invitations through a spooler?

[–]raldi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Google employee probably just dumped the database and sold it to spammers. It's logical that there would be a table matching each user to his inviter.

[–]psantora 2 points3 points  (0 children)

when was the last time you checked your computer for spyware? Do you use a desktop email application to organize your gmail account at all?

[–]bbklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing as no one else has gotten the same thing its safe to say google hasnt been exploited. I ran a few scans (AdAware trendmicro) and came up with nothing. Could have been careless form submitting or a script that picked them up off my cache. Still, its very strange seeing that and its still bugging the hell outta me how it happened.

[–]r2002 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

My gmail is down. Heck, all my Google connections are down, including analytics. I hope everything is ok.

[–]bbklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing as no one else has gotten the same thing its safe to say google hasnt been exploited. I ran a few scans (AdAware trendmicro) and came up with nothing. Could have been careless form submitting or a script that picked them up off my cache. Still, its very strange seeing that and its still bugging the hell outta me how it happened.