Help Spam from my phone?

[LittleMissMe]

I just got Sprint last week. We started with the HTC Hero. All my contacts started receiving spam. I SWEAR it HAD to be the phone because nothing like that has EVER happened from my home PC and I have had many viruses at different times.

Went back to the store, upgraded to the HTC Evo, now after a few days, again, my contacts are getting spammed. Sprint customer service says it's my home PC which I am scanning right now. I changed my password to a more difficult one and all I can do is wait and see.

I did click the "details" link at the bottom of Gmail and it sure does show me checking Gmail 9/10 times from TX and once from India!

 

[chawski]

Just a heads up, I checked my details, and i was logged in at 9am today from NY, and i havnt been to ny in quite some time. I have been getting emails from a known contact with a link, which i did not click, but it looks like someone was in my account.

 

[nathanotis]

I'm the o p. I set up my yahoo account on an android device and within 24 hours, my contacts and i started receiving pharmacy spam.

Something's rotten in denmark.

 

[dricky]

ok so I had the same thing happen to me. It freaked me out a bit when I saw it.
I had to reactivate my account and reset my password. then i remembered that gmail had the feature that you can see where your account has been sign on at.
Apparently Germany and some other place I never even heard of started signing in to my account! (I'm from the United States)
and this was also after I changed my password so once again I changed it... (btw Germany was mobile.)
I don't know what to do, I don't want to delete my gmail, but what can I do if they got into it not once, but twice! and after I changed my password.

 

[nathanotis]

Bump. Looking for more input.

 

[joseamirandavelez]

Just a heads up, I checked my details, and i was logged in at 9am today from NY, and i havnt been to ny in quite some time. I have been getting emails from a known contact with a link, which i did not click, but it looks like someone was in my account.

How do you get the activity log?

 

[nathanotis]

This weekend GTalk started acting up. Told me my login and password was wrong. Then I tried to open Gmail... It made me validate the account with a swoopy, illegible security word.

What's going on, gang?

 

[joseamirandavelez]

That happened to me but in Facebook. I'm starting to think this is an issue of us using the phone to get emails/facebook, etc... The IP may be recognized as being from another state... In my case (I live in PR), my home connection IP is usually recognized as being from Canada (I'm in the Caribbean and US territory... go figure...), so with my PC it is going to say I'm in Canada. Then my phone gets a US IP, so Facebook thinks how can this guy be at Canada and then Puerto Rico 10 minutes later???

 

[nathanotis]

Now THIS makes sense to me... I routinely check my details on gmail.com and see TX, KS and CO... Often in the same hour. I can see that throwing up some red flags...

I'm satisfied with this explanation for now. Thank you.

 

[MrDangerous]

Several people on my contacts including myself got pharmacy spam today from my gmail account. I logged in and there was a red warning from google that my account was being accessed from china. I changed my password immediately. Earlier today I was thinking when I installed a game on my phone "why does it need my contacts?"
There you go!