[Gmail-Users] Re: Serious Security Flaw With Gmail Filters

Well, there have been reports of for example people who have dots in
their username receiving the mail of I believe another user who may
have registered the same username but without the dot in it and visa
versa, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though as I'm not 100%
sure on that

On 12/11/05, Fanis Hatzidakis <theofanis.hatzidakis@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hex Star, what kind of problems are you refering to?
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> Fanis
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> On 12/11/05, Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gmail addresses with dots in the usernames like yours often have
> > problems associated with them, if the account is still fairly new or
> > you have your email backed up it may be best to register a new account
> > without a dot in your username....
> >
> > On 12/10/05, GLSmyth <george.smyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have tried emailing this problem to Google, but have gotten no
> > > response. Perhaps someone here knows what to do.
> > >
> > > I just noticed a filter in my Gmail account that I did not create.
> > >
> > > Apparently, if an email I receive has the word "eBay" in it, it is
> > > getting forwarded to [email address] .
> > >
> > > I definitely did not create this filter, have no idea where it came
> > > from, and do not know who this person is. I believe that my email was
> > > hacked and someone is trying to get information from my email.
> > > Recently I have gotten an inordinate amount of bounced emails from
> > > people I never sent an email to, so I wonder if that is connected.
> > >
> > > I have deleted the filter so that this no longer happens.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea whether or not Google knows of this security
> > > flaw, and is there any way to prevent this from happening?
> > >
> > > Thank you -
> > >
> > > George L Smyth
> > >
> > >
> >
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