she clicked on a link sent by one of her friends, and it asked for her gmail password, which she duly filled in. Luckily for her, she was online on gmail when the hacker started sending mails and phishing links to her other friends, and we immediately changed the password, and forced signed out all other sessions [yes, that little feature on gmail recent login details came in handy.]
The account is safe now, and more importantly.. she learned her lesson, not to give away her passwords to any random site.
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she clicked on a link sent by one of her friends, and it asked for her gmail password, which she duly filled in.
Luckily for her, she was online on gmail when the hacker started sending mails and phishing links to her other friends,
and we immediately changed the password, and forced signed out all other sessions [yes, that little feature on gmail recent login details came in handy.]
The account is safe now, and more importantly.. she learned her lesson, not to give away her passwords to any random site.
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