So, I bought my blackberry curve on the 21st of this month. I set up both of my gmail accounts (and used the secondary one on this website).
They were working fine. Later on in the evening, I tried to sign into one of my gmail accounts and was unable.
Today, I get an IM from a friend saying he got this message from my email (the one I can't log in to)
Hello,
How are you doing? hope all is well with you and family,i am sorry
that i didn't inform you about my traveling to England for a program
called Empowering youth to fight racism,HIV/Aids,and lack of
education..
I need a favor from you as soon as you receive this e-mail because i
misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money,and other
valuable things were kept, i will like you to assist me with a soft
loan urgently with the sum of $1,500 US Dollars to sort-out my hotel
bills and get myself back home.
I will appreciate whatever you can afford and I'll pay you back as
soon as i return,Kindly let me know if you can be of help? so that i
can send you the Details to use when sending the money through western
union.
Regards
So is it a coincidence that my email got hacked the same day I hooked it up to the blackberry and this site??
BB is secure. Upgrade your password to something stronger.
I'm sure this is not news to anyone here, but passwords should make no sense at all really, random assortment of letters and numbers. I use my password protector on the bb to store all of them, that way I don't really have to worry about remembering the password to my email accounts, etc; just the one to my bb!