Anyone know of any identity theft issues relating to Gmail? Can
someone get hold of your identity and use it to contact my own
contacts?

On Sep 24, 5:55 am, bulb... [at] googlemail.com wrote:
> Anyone know of any identity theft issues relating to Gmail? Can
> someone get hold of your identity and use it to contact my own
> contacts?

I think you should be fine if you use a wired connection and if you
are using firefox with the "Better Gmail" plugin. It has an option to
force https connections.
Oh, and watch that machine because there is always the "Keep me logged
in" feature and "remember password" feature that most browsers have.

I have not heard of identity theft issues relating to gmail yet. You
can always download your contact list as a csv file and erase
everything in gmail.

If someone also knows your email address and they know who you are
contacting, they can always spoof email which is really easy to do off
of an open smtp relay. The majority of email users don't know how to
trace an email to see who it really came from.

hope this answers your questions.

Mello

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Good luck to you!
~Lauren
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"Straight Talk" <b__nice [at] hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:00 -0400, zonealarmforcefield
> <zonealarmforcefield.2yj1ha [at] no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote:

>>Good luck to you!
>
> He'll sure need it in the hands of clueless marketing guys.

Hey, don't be too hard on him. A lot of marketing types actually believe
this stuff.

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On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:18:20 -0000, Mello <carmelo.walsh [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>I think you should be fine if you use a wired connection and if you
>are using firefox with the "Better Gmail" plugin.

What's this "Better Gmail" plugin?

Tom

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