Gmail Exploit?

This is strange....and troubling.

I sent my wife an email (we both use gmail) a few days ago. When I checked my gmail today there was a reply to that email from a viagra spammer.

Has anyone else seen this before?

 

I've not seen that before but it does sounds very troubling. You sure it wasn't your wifre trying to tell you something

 

Thats gotta just be a bug where it joined the two conversations...Did the spammer acknowledge the original content? Was the subject exactly the same?

Anyway, I go with dct - Your wife is pushing the viagra

 

No, there was no acknowledgement but the subject was the same.

 

Hey are you using an email client such as Microsoft Outlook. If yes then is this because of virus? Such virus cause no harm but read your address book and tranmit it to spammers.

 

Spyware perhaps? Logging your subjects and using that to increase hit rate?

 

That happened to me once before where one Spam email matched a current thread and it joined it...I went to delete the Spam and it deleted the whole thread.

One of the few weird bugs in gMail. (Although it rarely happens)

 

I use Gmail through the web interface only...no thrid-party mail programs.

And as far as I can tell, my PC is clean. I'll run some more checks though.

 

I've had that happen before where the subject of the email was the same, I'm pretty sure it's a bug.

 

Do you mean this is a bug with GMAIL? But can gmail send back a email from someone else and that too spam mail?

 

Yes it was within the gmail interface, it joined two replies from different people that had the same subject.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

 

It isn't sending it, just linking what it thinks is a continous conversation

 

I have not seen these kind of thing.
But overall my experience with gmail was not good.
Downtime is headache if you want to send or read email.
And there are also other discrepancies in Google.
Lot of javascript flaws recently found.

 

can be it just coincidence? (possible if your subject line was very generic like - "hello")...

 

No, it actually had my original email to my wife in the reply.

 

hmm, that's serious..

 

That's what I'm sayin'!

 

or your wife just make a joke

or gmail is viagra spammer?

oh

 

Click on full headers and check the source email address and the IP (host) it oringated from.

 

This is possible if spammer used the same subject String. Simply gmail server will think that it is a reply.