So...
I go to my email and I have a significant amount of female interest all of a sudden in my inbox. Saying they saw me on a dating site?! All of their emails are gmail?!
Yet, their interest seems non specific. Do you gents or ladies ever have this happen? What the heck is it? You think someone made a fake profile? I don't want to go searching and get a virus on my computer or something.
- Frankie Fine
- 01-09-2014, 05:01 PM
- Aguy
- 01-09-2014, 05:11 PM
So...
I go to my email and I have a significant amount of female interest all of a sudden in my inbox. Saying they saw me on a dating site?! All of their emails are gmail?!
Yet, their interest seems non specific. Do you gents or ladies ever have this happen? What the heck is it? You think someone made a fake profile? I don't want to go searching and get a virus on my computer or something. Originally Posted by Frankie Fine
I don't think it's a fake profile as much as your second guess -- a virus. They or it is either fishing to find out what email address are live or it's a virus that spreads through emailing itself or a link to itself to every contact in the infected computers address book. Just delete them.
- ben dover
- 01-09-2014, 07:29 PM
Hmmmmmm, Frankie and another girl..... Uhmmmm... where is my passport??
- Frankie Fine
- 01-10-2014, 08:07 AM
I don't think it's a fake profile as much as your second guess -- a virus. They or it is either fishing to find out what email address are live or it's a virus that spreads through emailing itself or a link to itself to every contact in the infected computers address book. Just delete them. Originally Posted by AguyOk, sounds good! Thank you
been deleting them.
- Frankie Fine
- 01-10-2014, 08:10 AM
- Highwayman64
- 01-10-2014, 11:05 AM
Hmmmmmm, Frankie and another girl..... Uhmmmm... where is my passport?? Originally Posted by ben doverI'm with you Ben! BTW Fankie got my renewed passport back finally
looking forward to traveling north soon eh? Oh ya just delete them emails but if you decide on taking one of them women up call us lol!
- Frankie Fine
- 01-10-2014, 03:53 PM
Uh oh! Look out Canada ...hehe congratulations!!
Can't wait to meet you
And I think the spam emails are actually meant for a guy. I guess Frankie can be either m/f name, which is actually why I chose it. Good for phone discretion.
congratulations!!Can't wait to meet you
And I think the spam emails are actually meant for a guy. I guess Frankie can be either m/f name, which is actually why I chose it. Good for phone discretion.
- lou21
- 01-11-2014, 12:43 PM
Frankie
This might have something to do with it. Saw it on yahoo.
Google Has Seemingly Made It Easier For Strangers To Send You Email
A new feature in Google Inc’s Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
The change, which Google announced on Thursday, broadens the list of contacts available to Gmail users so it includes both the email addresses of their existing contacts, as well as the names of people on the Google+ social network. As a result, a person can send an email directly to friends, and strangers, who use Google+.
Google is increasingly trying to integrate its Google+, a two-and-a-half-year old social network that has 540 million active users, with its other services. When consumers sign up for Gmail, the company’s Web-based email service, they are now automatically given a Google+ account.
Google said the new feature will make it easier for people who use both services to communicate with their friends.
"Have you ever started typing an email to someone only to realize halfway through the draft that you haven’t actually exchanged email addresses?" the company said in a blog post announcing the feature. "You’re in luck, because now it’s easier for people using Gmail and Google+ to connect over email."
Google said that users who did not wish to receive email messages from other people on Google+ could switch the settings so that they receive messages only from people they have added to their networks of friends or from no one at all.
Some privacy advocates said Google should have made the new feature “opt-in,” meaning that users should explicitly agree to receive messages from other Google+ users, rather than being required to manually change the setting.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the new feature “troubling.”
"There is a strong echo of the Google Buzz snafu," he said, referring to a social networking service that Google launched in 2010. Buzz initially used its Gmail users’ contact lists to create social networks that the rest of the world could see, leading to an uproar and ultimately a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
This might have something to do with it. Saw it on yahoo.
Google Has Seemingly Made It Easier For Strangers To Send You Email
A new feature in Google Inc’s Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
The change, which Google announced on Thursday, broadens the list of contacts available to Gmail users so it includes both the email addresses of their existing contacts, as well as the names of people on the Google+ social network. As a result, a person can send an email directly to friends, and strangers, who use Google+.
Google is increasingly trying to integrate its Google+, a two-and-a-half-year old social network that has 540 million active users, with its other services. When consumers sign up for Gmail, the company’s Web-based email service, they are now automatically given a Google+ account.
Google said the new feature will make it easier for people who use both services to communicate with their friends.
"Have you ever started typing an email to someone only to realize halfway through the draft that you haven’t actually exchanged email addresses?" the company said in a blog post announcing the feature. "You’re in luck, because now it’s easier for people using Gmail and Google+ to connect over email."
Google said that users who did not wish to receive email messages from other people on Google+ could switch the settings so that they receive messages only from people they have added to their networks of friends or from no one at all.
Some privacy advocates said Google should have made the new feature “opt-in,” meaning that users should explicitly agree to receive messages from other Google+ users, rather than being required to manually change the setting.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the new feature “troubling.”
"There is a strong echo of the Google Buzz snafu," he said, referring to a social networking service that Google launched in 2010. Buzz initially used its Gmail users’ contact lists to create social networks that the rest of the world could see, leading to an uproar and ultimately a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
- Frankie Fine
- 01-11-2014, 01:03 PM
That might be it!
I can not find the friggen privacy options :/ Ughhh. Fucking gmail phone setting Ughhh. I feel like a total tool.
Thank you for posting, I am going to see if I can get into my privacy menu. Why the heck isn't it in plain view
I can not find the friggen privacy options :/ Ughhh. Fucking gmail phone setting Ughhh. I feel like a total tool.
Thank you for posting, I am going to see if I can get into my privacy menu. Why the heck isn't it in plain view
- lou21
- 01-11-2014, 09:32 PM
Wish I could help but I'm a little technically challenged myself.