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Every once in a while I receive email (on Gmail) that isn't addressed to me. Gmail puts it in the spam box, because it 'can't verify that it has been sent by [sender]'. The emails, when opened, contain confidential information about deliveries and paid bills (it does look an awful lot like 'real' mail from well-known companies, and it doesn't look like a scam, since the mail is informative - they give information instead of asking for credit card numbers ;-)), and I even got an email from "Facebook" that I requested a password change and that I have to 'click here' to change the password for [email address that isn't mine]. I am not the only addressee, there seems to be a whole list of Gmail addresses beginning with 'a'.
The original addressee obviously has some sort of virus, and now I wonder if this could be a risk for me too. Is my email being sent around without my knowing too? I am not the kind of person who randomly clicks on shady links - I am very careful on the internet - but maybe there are other ways of catching viruses? Is there something I should do/check?
Thank you for your help!
Anne
Posted 2012-10-30T16:14:46.253
Reputation: 23
'The original addressee obviously has some sort of virus' or he has a mail address simimlar to yours and mistyped his email address. -- I have a friend who has a mail address as first.Last@.. and she gets a lot of mails intended to firstLast@... (no dot, and a completely different person) – Hennes – 2012-10-30T16:17:51.917
I think if you continue being safe, including regular change of passwords, you're on the right track. – None – 2012-10-30T16:20:58.170
I've seen messages like that... I'm pretty sure they are just spam... Auto sent to e-mail addresses gleaned off the web. – BenjiWiebe – 2012-10-30T16:22:10.497
The Delete key is the best email antivirus on the market! – Moab – 2012-10-30T18:23:15.473