[Skess]

This past September, I experienced something that you all should be aware of.
Copies of every email I sent and received from my Blackberry 7100T were being sent to a stranger living in another state. These included emails with passwords to different websites, personal emails, business emails, etc.

I use TMobile as my cell company. They were USELESS!

Finally, after two weeks of dealing with the "blackberry specialists" the situation was resolved. This only happened because the woman who was receiving copies of my emails contacted one of the people I had emailed, and gave her name and telephone number.

I was very lucky she was an honest person.

After that, I was able to contact Blackberry through TMobile and tech told me that this was a "one in a million" chance of happening...but had no explanation as to why it occurred.

By the way - when I contacted TMobile and told them as reparation, I wanted my cell bill - a whopping $80 - paid for that month, I was told that they would only give me $50.

I was finally able to get the entire bill paid, but only by physically going to a corporate office.

I should have sued them.

Anyway - be aware, things are not as secure as you think they are.

Anyone else have this happen?

[tEh_LeEt_1]

I have no idea if this has happened to me, but thanks for letting us know whats up!

[Concept]

I have to question the validity of your story. There is no way that your emails were being sent to a 3rd party address unless you BCC that address. I mean how the hell to you expect people to believe that out of nowhere blackberry linked some random email addy to your account. You must have messed up when you were setting up the account and you must have typed in the wrong BCC for your account.

I mean come on, how can we believe that you come one here with 1 whole post and say that your BB account was linked to some old lady's email out of nowhere. I gotta hear more about this whole thing before I even consider you statement true.

[ScOObydoo]

I wouldn't be so quick to doubt this story; a few days ago my wifes Berry (also on T-mo) suddenly lost its own account and started getting email from someone elses Yahoo account. Emails sent from it also looked like they were coming from this persons yahoo account. I'd say something is really wrong at T-mobile...

[Soapm]

I'd say it's a good thing NTP did win the patent suite because it appears the work around is not so fool proof...

[diesel]

Originally Posted by Soapm

I'd say it's a good thing NTP did win the patent suite because it appears the work around is not so fool proof...

huh?

[paulfr2]

Originally Posted by diesel

huh?

yeah I second that huh!??

[zChris]

Originally Posted by ScOObydoo

I wouldn't be so quick to doubt this story; a few days ago my wifes Berry (also on T-mo) suddenly lost its own account and started getting email from someone elses Yahoo account. Emails sent from it also looked like they were coming from this persons yahoo account. I'd say something is really wrong at T-mobile...

There could be a number of reasons why this happened. The most likely one would be that someone in the BB support team of your operator made a mistake in the admin page of BIS where your BB PIN was entered in the BIS profile of the person with the Yahoo account. As a result, your Handheld would then be associated with that person's BIS account and not your wife's, which is why she "lost" her own account.

On the first post as to all email on someone's Handheld being copied to another person, its pretty hard to say how something like this could happen. It is possible that the user was playing around with the filters on the Desktop Software to automatically cc or bcc all outgoing email to the 3rd person's email address or, if you are using BES, perhaps your BES Admin was playing around with the policies and made a mistake somewhere. I highly doubt (but I guess its possible) that a relay error occurred. Something like this would be extremely difficult for your operator to troubleshoot.

[mdsnitc]

I assume your not on a BES? Its seems pretty much impossible for this to occur if your running a BES (end-end encryption, digital certificates, etc).

[SmurfBerry]

This is a freaking joke. I am in the Intelligence Community and I have heard a bunch of s@#t and this is a good one. The previous post above mine about encryption and so forth speaks for itself. it sounds like a bad case of operator error...so RTFM.

[kurichan]

Something very similar happened to a colleague of mine. He had a BB, cancelled the account, but about a year later, got a call from the police in a different state. One of the officers there was getting my collegue's e-mail!

No joke.

I don't remember which carrier it was, and it sounds very much like carrier error to me, but it is very disconcerting! Whatever the reason, that this can happen really hurts the security credibility of the BB.

[Berry One]

Originally Posted by kurichan

Something very similar happened to a colleague of mine. He had a BB, cancelled the account, but about a year later, got a call from the police in a different state. One of the officers there was getting my collegue's e-mail!

Every blackberry has unique email address, like . This is my guess of what may have happened:

Your colleague has name like Jim Smith and account like

He configured his other account(s) to forward emails to

He cancels blackberry account

He forgets to stop forwarding

For a year nothing did happen, as forwarded emails kept forwarded and get lost in cyberspace: account is invalid, recipient is not found.

Whatever lock RIM has on creating accounts with previously used name expired in one year, and jsmith is up to grabs.

Officer John Smith gets new blackberry and opens new blackberry account: . He can do it as is available.

Forwarded emails from Jim start to arrive to now valid which belongs to officer John Smith

Whatever the reason, that this can happen really hurts the security credibility of the BB.

It is like someone moving to a new house but not updating everyone with new home address. Some letters will keep coming to old address.

[dc/dc]

Just goes to show that you need to be very careful with how you handle your BB and e-mail in general. BB's are not secure communication devices, unless you are in the military and have the bluetooth CAC reader; but even then, operator error can come into play.

[Concept]

Like I said to begin with I'm pretty sure it was operator error. Either on his part or whoever manages his BES account. I mean how hard is to mess up if you have an email address you wanna BCC at but instead you or the system admin punches in or or any other combination of numbers and letters that fat fingers can mess up pretty easily if your not careful.

[impdust]

Originally Posted by ScOObydoo

I wouldn't be so quick to doubt this story; a few days ago my wifes Berry (also on T-mo) suddenly lost its own account and started getting email from someone elses Yahoo account. Emails sent from it also looked like they were coming from this persons yahoo account. I'd say something is really wrong at T-mobile...

This same thing happened to me just before the New Years. I stopped receiving emails and when I went to the T-Mobile web page to check my emails settings I found that all my information was gone and it had been replaced with someone elses information.

T-Mobile acted like it was no big deal at all and I told them they had a serious problem if peoples emails were being sent to the wrong blackberry's.

[Chrisgohard]

I remember one evening I turned my wireless off but kept the blackberry powered on. I was in the W8N room/emer room. When I went2 make a call, I turned on my wireless, and I got (either or) a text, email...from sum other person I neva heard of. I'm wit Nextel by the way. Also I don't have an easy email addy that you can mistake for another. This used to happen all the time wit sms or MMS when I had my I860. Anybody ever had that prob B4?

[paulbblc]

I just got an email today that was not addressed to me. It was from a hotmail account to a yahoo account and it was some pretty personal information. Nothing too personal but still something that spammers wouldnt include in emails.

The email didn't show up on any of my gmail or company addresses but was in my BIS inbox.

Pretty wierd. I remembered this thread from awhile back so I thought I'd share. Any ideas how it would happen?

[rmccamman]

Wirelessly posted (7100i: BlackBerry7100i/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/103)

It must be your phone. How could t mobile grab your mail and then send it? Hmmmm

[Concept]

Originally Posted by paulbblc

I just got an email today that was not addressed to me. It was from a hotmail account to a yahoo account and it was some pretty personal information. Nothing too personal but still something that spammers wouldnt include in emails.

The email didn't show up on any of my gmail or company addresses but was in my BIS inbox.

Pretty wierd. I remembered this thread from awhile back so I thought I'd share. Any ideas how it would happen?

how does one get an email that is not addressed to them. I just don't see how gets sent to . I just simply can't happen.

[paulbblc]

Originally Posted by Concept

how does one get an email that is not addressed to them. I just don't see how gets sent to . I just simply can't happen.

I really have no idea either. I was really surprised, however I did some reading and if this is the case it would explain a lot but some spammers have a way of hiding the addresses they send spam to. So although it only said to: it was likely sent out to more people.

Now the question remains how these spammers got my BIS email addy and how often am I going to receive these. Also why would a spammer send an email out refering to a scheduled church bake sale using first names and specific details. (ex. "Mary please remember to park in the back lot as the front two lots are used for guests.")