| Someone Sending Messages From My User Handle | nbharadw | 6/16/12 10:05 PM | Someone is sending malicious messages to my friends pretending to be me. I'm not sure how this is possible, as my password is a random string of characters encrypted on my hard drive, and I use 2-step authentication, so I am very confident that my ac |
| Re: Someone Sending Messages From My User Handle | KeithR | 6/16/12 10:41 PM | Are you meaning chat messages or email messages? |
| Re: Someone Sending Messages From My User Handle | nbharadw | 6/17/12 10:07 AM | I'm talking about Google Chat. I know they use an XMPP server backend, so I'm not sure how easy it would be for Google to trace the source of the malicious messages... |
| Re: Someone Sending Messages From My User Handle | KeithR | 6/17/12 6:01 PM | It's easy to alter one's name to look like someone else, but it's much more difficult to fake someone else's email address. Get your friends to check the email address attached to these messages rather than the displayed name. |