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I doubt Google would block someone with the correct login credentials just because the location is 'odd'... Is someone having a vacation odd? Or someone visiting friends? Or someone using a proxy server at another location for that matter? And I think a lot of malicious login attempts come from your direct surroundings, like people watching over your shoulder, angry exes or family, etc.
I wouldn't trust that email one bit... Delete it and don't worry about it. You could change your password if it makes you feel safer 
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public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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It has happened to me several times.
Each time I travel AND I try to download mails from my laptop then I receive this kind of email which usually tells me the approximate location from where the connection has been done.
I usually don't change the password as I know it has been me the one that has tried to connect.
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Hold on, have I got this straight?
-- You steal a someone's e-mail creds.
-- You log in to the user's e-mail from "somewhere else".
-- The user's account receives an e-mail saying that "someone" has logged in "somewhere else".
-- You delete that e-mail.
-- The user never knows that you're reading his/her e-mail.
I do like to have processes properly documented.
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Somewhere else for me has been a different country always.
You can't continue and proceed into your e-mail from that other country using your laptop unless you go into a more complicated autentification system (which I usually don't go there as I'm accessing gmail from my outlook).
The e-mail is just received at the moment someone tries to go into your account.
Apart of that you are right, yes. 
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It happened to me - I was on vacation in Mauritius (I'm from India) and checked my email as usual, but was told the activity was suspicious and had to authenticate with an OTP sent by SMS to my registered cell number.
(It just have been my Yahoo account and not Gmail though... I have them both set up in Blue Mail on my Android phone.)
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Enable "2-Step Verification" to avoid any troubles.
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Good idea! I did it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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thatraja wrote: Enable "2-Step Verification" to avoid any troubles.
Absolutely!
Google NEEDS more of your personal information!
... And when their servers get hacked (don't even dream that they won't be), so much more of your life will be available to steal.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google certainly sends these messages. I was in Hong Kong last week and got exactly this on my travel laptop which I had set up in Perth and worked perfectly there. I also had to enter password every time I accessed mail using Thunderbird. I am assuming Google builds a history of the account (IP, mac address etc) and reacts to unusual logins.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It happened to me but in strange way.
I tried to login to Gmail (with correct password) and it won't let me in without second verification which I don't remember setting up..so was in fix..can't access... 
After couple of days, tried again and it went through and flashed a message someone tried to access your site and showed location from where it was attempted..and Guess what, it was showing my location only !
Don't know what transpired in between 
Thanks,
Milind
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Do you have your cell number saved with Google? Do it and you'll save yourself a lot of trouble.
That's the second verification they use.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Yes - google are obviously getting better at blocking malicious logins.
My account was hacked from China around three years ago. At that time google did not block access from unexpected locations.
I don't know how my account was hacked, however a number of other people had their accounts hacked from within China at that time too.
It may also be worth downloading the google authenticator for your mobile device - for software that uses it, the application and hence your data is protected by a two factor authentication.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thought For The Day
And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world.
Then he made the earth round...and laughed and laughed and laughed.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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You're an evil man, Mike.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Evil, Wicked, Mean and Nasty[^]
Came to mind immediately
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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It did not fool us for long, then. I always wondered, what motivated Eratosthenes[^] to calculate the planet's circumference. He certainly did not believe he was sitting on some flat tile or disc.
Anyway, this sounds more like the way the devil traditionally keeps his promises.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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CDP1802 wrote: what motivated Eratosthenes[^] to calculate the planet's circumference
To find out how far he had to go to get away. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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So now we have three candidates who may have played that little joke on us. God, the devil or perhaps Charles Darwin (standing for evolution, of course).
Evolutional algorithms have a tendency to fulfill their directives to the letter, but not to the way they were intended. My prime suspect is evolution.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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TFTD means Terror From the Deep to me (follow up from the X-COM game UFO Enemy Unknown)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Someone is trying to learn C in advance of his course which starts in the new year.
Good idea, possibly.
So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4...and it's not working quite as he expects...
That's what? 20 years old? 
I'm amazed it runs on a modern OS! 
That has to be a record: unless you know someone who found a copy of QuickC for DOS and got it to install under Win7?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, at least he tried... And in case you're planning to help him: awww yisss, history goodness![^] 
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
I can't believe MS have given it away, but if they have...gawd but I'm tempted!
Got any 5.25" floppies? And a floppy drive?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Virtual Floppy Drive...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
... Aaaaaand, it Does work in DosBox!
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