Gmail accounts are easily stolen!

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  • patriotcow
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2004
    • 392

    Gmail accounts are easily stolen!

    I just found out that your inviter can easily take your gmail account of you!

    When that person gives you a link which is the invite they sign up and your email address is automatically entered as the secondry address. Then when they sign up you log out of gmail and do the following:

    1. Click forgot password
    2. Enter the email of that person who signed up under your invite
    3. Enter the word in the picture
    4. Then type any word in the secret answer box.
    5. Click reset using secondry email.
    6. Log back into your account

    Then you will have a link to change their password.

    Now this is just a warning for people who use their gmail account for important things, change your secondry email address ASAP.
  • PGN
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2005
    • 124
    • 3.0.3

    #2
    Thanks for the warning, I've changed mine

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    • MGM
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2002
      • 3653
      • 3.6.x

      #3
      Changed mine too.

      Does Google just simply make the answer blank? Or does the user do that out of laziness? For some reason mine was blank (judging from the settings page) but I could've sworn I had changed it before...

      MGM out

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      • Jagged Tooth
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2005
        • 118
        • 3.8.x

        #4
        Changed mine now, I don't trust my brother.

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        • patriotcow
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2004
          • 392

          #5
          Oh yeah for people who don't know how, you click settings then to go account settings then Security Question & Contact Info.

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          • ManagerJosh
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2002
            • 9922

            #6
            Originally posted by patriotcow
            Oh yeah for people who don't know how, you click settings then to go account settings then Security Question & Contact Info.
            Oddly enough it doesn't affect me..
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            • Ace
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2004
              • 4051
              • 4.2.X

              #7
              Me either. The secondary email address is ALWAYS the email address the invite was sent to.
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              • patriotcow
                Senior Member
                • Nov 2004
                • 392

                #8
                No always uses the inviters email as the secondry for me. I just invited myself and did it to, try inviting yourself then sign up and say you forgot your password and you get the link to your inviter account to reset password.

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                • ManagerJosh
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2002
                  • 9922

                  #9
                  I don't get it...did the above, and still lost.
                  ManagerJosh, Owner of 4 XenForo Licenses, 1 vBulletin Legacy License, 1 Internet Brands Suite License
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                  • mholtum
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2004
                    • 298
                    • 3.5.x

                    #10
                    hmm My secondary email is my main email adress. Purhaps I entered that when I joined.
                    Home of the free, Because of the brave.

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                    • patriotcow
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 392

                      #11
                      Originally posted by ManagerJosh
                      I don't get it...did the above, and still lost.
                      When you sign up some people rush and leave the person who invited you as the secondry email, Loads of people have done it without noticing.

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                      • MrNase
                        Senior Member
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 3575
                        • 3.8.x

                        #12
                        Oh.. My secondary email was empty.. Thanks for the tip
                        That's the end of that!

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                        • Onimua
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 2005
                          • 4572

                          #13
                          Did Gmail know about this and any new created accounts make the secondary contact address blank? I don't have that problem on mine.
                          Congratulations on the death of vBulletin, Internet Brands.

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                          • patriotcow
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2004
                            • 392

                            #14
                            I'll make a flash video to show you but how do I record what I do on my pc as a flash document?

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                            • Colin F
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2004
                              • 17689

                              #15
                              There is software to do that.
                              Macromedia Captivate for example.


                              Don't know of any freeware though
                              Best Regards
                              Colin Frei

                              Please don't contact me per PM.

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