Gmail account hacked
I got a spam e-mail today that piqued my interest. It was written in Danish, and the name on the account looked familiar. The text of the e-mail was also in Danish, but was pure spam. This surprised me, because there’s virtually no Norwegian language spam - we’ve got too tough laws for that to happen much. I assume the same is true of Denmark.
So I started investigating.
The whole list of addresses it was sent to was visible. Looking through it, I thought it looked like someone’s e-mail address book. And I recognized the name and where I’d seen it. A guy I met a little over a year ago. He wasn’t likely to have sent this. I’ve contacted him to tell him he’s been hacked.
The spam was directing people to a store registered with a Chinese name:
store-168.com
And it’s been named as one of the sites benefitting from stolen gmail account passwords before. McAfee also has a comment saying the site is puro phishing.
Just wanted to tell you that it is translated using some translation application, the grammar is garbage (if you didn’t notice) and they use hacked accounts where they mail everyone on their “friends” list (i’ve gotten 3 so far from people i have or had on msn)