Re: [PCWorks] Anyone getting these "Suspicious sign in prevented" emails from Gmail?

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:53:23 -0500

But did the emails you got have some foreign or other IP 
address as mine did?
-Clint

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"

Exactly the same. The odd thing is that my Droid has been on 
the network
for two years, so this must be some new security check.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin <
> wrote:

> I don't know if we're talking about the same thing.  The 
> emails
> I got were like this:
>
> Hi *******,
>
> Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to 
> your
> Google Account - ****************.
>
> We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker
> trying to access your account. Please review the details of 
> the
> sign-in attempt:
>
> Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:39:22 AM UTC
> IP Address: X
> Location: X
>
> If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else
> might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to
> your account and reset your password immediately."
>
> And like I said, the (X) IP's and Locations were all on RIPE,
> (lndia & Russ1a).  Either it's (so far) rare, or no one is
> posting anything about it because a 'last 24hr' search only
> results in one result:
> http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/ZY0LEQfuBeY
> Or, most likely I'm guessing the SE spiders just haven't 
> found
> the pages yet, if they exist.
> -Clint


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
>
>
> Yes. Had to verify my Droid as an allowed device.


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
<> wrote:

> Is anyone else getting these "Suspicious sign in prevented"
> emails from Gmail?  Most of my Gmail addresses got them, but
> not all are.
>
> No surprise the attacks are all on the RIPE network.
> -Clint

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