Google? Shame, Shame, Shame! You Will Soon Reap What You Sow!

I was hacked big time around February 19 or 20th of 2010! I didn’t say my computer was hacked because when you are a victim of this most vicious crime it affects not only your computer, but your business, colleagues, friends and family members, and especially your heart and soul.

If you became involved in the Internet to promote your product (your book, music, artwork, health formula or that unique wisdom you want to share with the public) one of the things you need the most is to trust the Internet facilitator you have chosen. When the facilitator let’s you down and can’t (or won’t) provide you an easy to use process to remedy the attack, it adds insult to the injury.

Like most of your average “Joe’s and Jane’s” who can’t afford fancy and costly web sites, we find ourselves using the “groups” web sites that are provided by many of the major cyber giants such as Blogger, Google Groups and other “free” (develop your own web) sites' providers in cyberspace. Those of us who chose to go this route (and there are millions) usually have an email address associated with the web site or blog that was initially provided by the Google’s of the world. Most of us end up using that email address as our master email account (to cut down on the confusion that comes from having too many email addresses) and we use it to log into many social network media accounts, as well as your bank accounts and other personal sites that request an email address so they can contact you with pertinent information. This works for some people, others choose to have varying email addresses for different purposes. So be it!

Nevertheless, when you have become a victim of a hacker, and especially when the culprit uses your email address not just to send out SPAM, but who cleverly uses it to prey on innocent people and extort them of their hard-earned dollars, you would think your cyberspace facilitator would have an instant remedy built into their system to stem this pernicious ploy.

Cyberspace experts (or at least we believe they are experts) can design programs that even a few years ago would be unimaginable. But they can’t develop a remedy to this problem. Now, mind you, we are not talking here about programs to prevent annoying SPAM and pop ups, we are talking about activity that is so heinously blatant that it ranks (or should) right up there with burglary and even rape!

The home protection industry has ingeniously devised security alarm systems that respond within seconds if any burglar or rapist tries to invade your home. But Google, one of the Internet giants has not been able to devise a rapid response program when one of their clients gets hacked. Instead, they have a process that requires filling out questionnaires that ask the most stupid and innocuous questions solely to verify if you are really the owner of that email address. They ask you questions such as “when did you sign up” with Gmail?” Who referred you to Gmail? What is your “temporary question?” Why? Do we really believe hackers are going to go directly to Google to access other people's email addresses? And to top this off, their captcha letters are so distorted and bunched together that even if you provided the correct password to your email address, it will kick you back. There is more, but suffice it to say that those who have experienced this idiocy recognize what I speak of.

Now, am I just solely one of a few people who have this problem? Lol!

You have no idea how rampant this problem is; yet the Google techno nerds who should have solved this problem a long tiime ago, have chosen to ignore this; they are too busy trying to impress their bosses with their cute new programs that have nothing to do with Google client services, seeking compliments from them, those mid-level managers who are themselves too busing raking in millions of dollars from their Ad Sense programs, among others, to impress their bosses and investors.

Read some of the complaints:

Level 1
12/15/09
On Monday morning December 14, 2009 around 4 AM ET my Gmail account was hacked and a message "about being stranded in London, UK, lost my credit cards etc. please help" A phone number and location were added. In addition, the cracker deleted the archive, so I've lost everything. I have been trying to contact Google to determine if they can restore the archive.

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yoverly

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12/17/09
On Thursday morning December 17, 2009 around 8AM ET, my gmail account was also hacked and two messages "emergency situation" and "I am really in need of your help" have been sent out to everyone whom I have ever e-mailed to from this account. I was apparently mugged by gunpoint in London, UK and needed $2500 wired to Western Union. This criminal changed my password, deleted my archive & contact list so I couldn't easily inform everyone to ignore these e-mails, had my e-mails forwarded to another gmail created in my name & similar to my real account so I couldn't see what was going on, and corresponded with a friend who responded with Western Union information. I reported this to google and Western Union in London.

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carlacomb
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12/26/09
Same happened to me, but I'm unable to access my account and I'm unable to reset my password. GMail is unwilling to help.

There you have it Google, just a small sampling of the thousands upon thousands of your clients who are being hacked (and emotionally raped) while you continuously ignore this major problem.

Sadly, Google, I must inform you that you folks will suffer economically in the long run. Soon, you will see your stock plummeting downward and, when it does, you will know the reason why. Not because of the current economic problems this country is suffering from; because great companies always prosper even during economic crisis when they do the right thing. Your downward plight will be because, Google, like so many other companies who focus more on the bottom line than on quality service, you, Google, will reap what you have sown! You failed to protect your clients and they are losing money. Therefore, you will be losing ten times more money due to your carelessness. As is stated in the Bible (Galatians 6:7) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Now, just in case any Google employees happen to read this, I am inserting the email address that was hacked. I have no fear that millions of other folks will have access to this email address. I can't access it, Google won't help me solve this problem, there is no one to speak to personally about this problem at Google headquarters, and besides, there is a guy in London, England already who is now in control of my email and to this day, he (or she) is still hustling hundreds of other people of their hard-earned dollars, mainly because Google didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to solve this problem a long time ago.

Feel free to email Joe Ortiz at Joe.Ortiz9299@GMail.com  You will probably get an email return notice; but he still is in control of that account and uses it daily to rob from other innocent folks, using my name!

Joe Ortiz, a 40 year veteran of news reporting, radio and television talk shows and newspaper columnist, is the author of The End Times Passover and Why Christians Will Suffer Great Tribulation (Author House). For more information, click here. news:docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATj8FT0-P9ZqZGRjcjRxNGRfNTd4a2praGhj&hl=en