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 07:03:16 -0500
I knew they were legit, what I was asking is anyone *else*
getting them. I'm wondering if it's just my accounts that are
being attacked, or is it a system-wide attack on many or most
Gmail accounts.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Moore"
Google does send out emails like that. Recently I was testing
a VPN set up
and changed in a few seconds from my home IP address to an IP
address in
Washington, DC . Google blocked my access to all my Gmail
addresses from
that strange IP. When I turned off the VPN I had emails from
Google saying
that I had had a strange attempt to access my account. I
usually use
Outlook to retrieve Gmail. When I went on line to Gmail I had
banner
messages on the Gmail website notifying me of the same thing.
So Google does send out messages like this. Whether yours was
legitimate or
not, I don't know. I really didn't examine the emails that
closely.
Ben Moore
-----Original Message-----
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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