If you ever are worried that your email has been hacked or if you have any questions, contact our team immediately at community@namati.org to explain your problem, and we’ll try to help as quickly as we can. For safety, do not transmit any passwords to us!
@indirasarma shared an article with me recently with a fairly scary warning for @namati_staff and any members using Gmail. While Google does a good job of preventing hackers and abuse via their services, there are still people out there using creative and nefarious methods to trick us into giving them our passwords. Email can be used to reset passwords across the web, including social media accounts, banking, etc, so just think of the mischief they can cause once they have your email password.
Be extremely careful about storing and sharing your passwords, use passwords that are hard to guess, and change your password from time to time. If you haven’t changed your email password recently, do it now! You won’t regret it.
This article talks about “phishing” which is the practice of tricking people into giving up their password. The method described involves sending you to a fake login form which looks identical to the Gmail login form. When you input your details there, you are giving it to the hackers.
As explained in the article, you can avoid trouble by looking in the browser address bar whenever you provide your password. For Google logins, it should look something like the below - note the green lock and https: which indicates you are entering your details into a secure and encrypted page. Also note the web address which is quite clearly accounts.google.com and not some hacker’s server. If it looks different than this, then be very careful! 
To read the full article, click the link below. Let me know if you have any questions at all or further insights to share. Stay safe out there! 
