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Email address being used as recovery email by spam accounts

  • 25-05-2019 11:23am
    #1
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,773 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,577 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    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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