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Why would someone be requesting a temporary password for Wordwind here? What's going on? I just received this message at my email address:
"Someone from the ip address '172.141.211.243' requested a temporary password for the Username 'wordwind' for the website 'AWADtalk'. This is a temporary password that can be used if you have forgotten your original password. If you did not request this, please ignore this message."
Well, I didn't request it. So what gives? Who requested it? And since I was told to ignore the message, I still feel uneasy. Can this person access my account?
Please inform, WW
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Dear WW: I had the same thing happen to me about six months ago. I ignored it, and nothing happened that I know of.
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I still want to know what's going on, wwh. You ignored it; nothing happened. That's good as long as nothing really happened. But how would we know whether someone had accessed our account?
Jackie, can you comment on this?
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Relax, Dub' The temp password is sent only to you. Someone else requested it. It only gets sent to the email address you used when you registered. Whoever requested it has learned nothing except that this stunt doesn't work.
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I got it today, too. I'm interested in knowing how many of us here received this same message, WW. Not a comfortable feeling, I agree. A little show of hands, please:
Anyone else?
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Can this address: '172.141.211.243' ...be traced?
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I just got another message like WW's, with same address. I will just ignore it. Bill
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Can this address: '172.141.211.243' ...be traced?
Query: 172.141.211.243
OrgName: America Online OrgID: AOL Address: 8619 Westwood Center Drive Address: Suite 200 City: Vienna StateProv: VA PostalCode: 22182 Country: US
NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.191.255.255 CIDR: 172.128.0.0/10 NetName: AOL-172BLK NetHandle: NET-172-128-0-0-1 Parent: NET-172-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: DAHA-01.NS.AOL.COM NameServer: DAHA-02.NS.AOL.COM Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE RegDate: 2000-03-24 Updated: 2002-08-09
this doesn't mean a whole lot to me, but maybe someone else can help fill in the holes...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Faldage and I also received one apiece. 'AOL' rings a bell. Yeah, just ignore it. This has happened before, and amounted to nothing but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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I got one, also; am asking Anu for explanation.
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