{"id":838,"date":"2018-10-25T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2018-10-25T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:29:02","slug":"in-todays-bogus-langa-com-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/25\/in-todays-bogus-langa-com-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Still getting other peoples’ email at Langa.Com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vietnam joins the parade of countries from which I’ve received for-real, private, and personal emails intended for others due to email shenanigans and a likely soft-hijacking<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the Langa.com web domain.<\/p>\n

Today’s email-meant-for-others is from Vietnam. It’s pretty benign in itself, but is one of thousands and thousands of emails\u00a0from all over the world, some of which contained other peoples’ bank and credit card<\/strong> account information; loan approvals<\/strong> and rejections; medical info<\/strong>; bills and receipts; job offers<\/strong>; security alerts, take-down\/shutdown notices and (like this example) password-change emails from every major online service and business (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Samsung…<\/strong>); on and on.<\/p>\n

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Vietnam joins the list of places from which I’ve gotten other people’s emails; the result of a soft hijacking<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the Langa.com domain. This is a benign example, but see the text for some really scary ones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve also gotten a ton of private corporate email containing high-value blueprints, invoices, regulatory filings, and more.<\/p>\n

All this mail was sent specifically to “Langa.Com,” but none of it should ever have come here.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve figured out why I\u2019m getting other people’s private email, and if you own or manage a domain — a .com<\/strong>, .net<\/strong>, .org<\/strong>, etc. — I believe there’s a general lesson in what happened to me; and an easy way you can prevent something similar from happening to you!<\/p>\n

For the full story, see Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a> of “The day I got a ‘Your Google Account has been deleted’ notice.”<\/p>\n

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Reply? Questions? Use the Comment box at the bottom of the page, or click CONTACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vietnam joins the parade of countries from which I’ve received for-real, private, and personal emails intended for others due to email shenanigans and a likely soft-hijacking of the Langa.com web domain. Today’s email-meant-for-others is from Vietnam. It’s pretty benign in itself, but is one of thousands and thousands of emails\u00a0from all over the world, some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech","category-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-dw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":715,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/15\/part-2-the-day-i-got-a-your-google-account-has-been-deleted-notice\/","url_meta":{"origin":838,"position":0},"title":"Part 2: The day I got a \u201cYour Google Account has been deleted\u201d notice","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2018-10-15","format":false,"excerpt":"In Part One, I told you about a weird email problem that caused me to receive a take-down notice from Google, telling me my account was being killed due to Terms of Service violations. 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