Email address being used as recovery email by spam accounts

hullaballoo · 2019-05-25 11:23:37

Hi, My better half has encountered this recently. She's getting mid notification emails that her email address has been added as a recovery email. 4 in the past 24 hours. The email addresses adding her address are nonsense gmail addresses. Just additional information that may or may not be relevant. Her email is…

25-05-2019 11:23AM

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hullaballoo

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Hi,

My better half has encountered this recently. She's getting mid notification emails that her email address has been added as a recovery email.

4 in the past 24 hours. The email addresses adding her address are nonsense gmail addresses.

Just additional information that may or may not be relevant. Her email is [firstname.lastname]@gmail.com so it's common enough for her to get emails in relation to other people with the same name.

Is there anything to be concerned about or any steps to counteract this problem?

Cheers.

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#2 25-05-2019 11:36AM

Victor

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On a device that you are happy that hasn't been compromised, change the password on the email account. Just in case.

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