Running a BB Curve 8900 with the latest official OS from AT&T. And yes I am on AT&T. I recently started using this device because my Bold 9000 has gotten very flaky and weak in the battery and I am ready for an upgrade(no reason to spend money on a battery if I upgrade...).
Last night my phone used a ringtone I never use. It rang for new email, which was both spoofed and spam. It looked like it came from my wife's bellsouth account. This happened twice in about an hour and a half. Both emails contained links to Canadian online pharmacies.
I am running malware and spyware scans on her machine just to be sure, but what I do not understand is why the notifications would be using a tone I do not have listed for any use on my BB.
One curious note, this morning the Curve decided to stop making ringtones. I did a battery pull and it is working as usual now. But the question remains, how would a notification use a ringtone I do not have setup for any notifications?
In your Active profile, look for and listen to your Browser notifier, see if that was the tone you heard. Are you subscribed to a news or sports service? It is possible that your info was given to another service that pushes spam through your Browser, also.
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Okay, answering my own post and feeling quite newbie-ish. I found the issue. It was not an issue. I had set a custom notification for her and forgotten that I did that. I had to find it through the "Select a Sound Profile" menu item when jumping between ring-styles. At the lower portion of the menu is an item to "Set Contact Alerts", it was in there where I found that custom ring-tone for her. I do not actually recall setting that.
And the spam portion was indeed spam from her. I left her machine scanning with malware and spyware software and found a few nasties. Those are since removed and we are back in shape.
That Custom profiles thing can getcha good sometimes. No worries, anyone can have a brainfart sometimes.