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Originally posted by Gmail

Lockdown in sector 4!

Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. In order to protect Gmail users from potentially harmful use of Gmail, this account has been disabled for up to 24 hours.

If you are using any third party software that interacts with your Gmail account, please disable it or adjust it so that its use complies with the Gmail Terms of Use. If you feel that you have been using your Gmail account according to the Terms of Use or otherwise normally, please contact us at gmail-lockdown@google.com to report this problem.

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Do you use something like GMail Drive?

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Originally posted by Leo
Do you use something like GMail Drive?

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Originally posted by Dane

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Originally posted by Leo
Do you use something like GMail Drive?

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Nope.  At the time I was just writing an email and then it wasnt working so I refreshed and got that message.  Never heard of Gmail Drive.

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Originally posted by Gmails Email Response

Hello,

Our system has detected unusual usage of your Gmail account. For your
protection, we have temporarily disabled all access to your account.

If you suspect that the unusual usage of your account has been caused by
a
third party, we recommend that you change your password and secret
question once you are able to log back in to Gmail. You should be able
to
access your account again within 24 hours.

If you are using any software that automatically logs in to your account,
or automatically sends and receives messages, we ask that you disable
the
software before accessing Gmail again. Please note that the use of such
third-party software is not supported by Gmail.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

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shouldnt refresh once your signed into the email service , maybe that was the cause?

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Originally posted by Demz
shouldnt refresh once your signed into the email service , maybe that was the cause?

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true .. iv'e never seen this error before.. nor do i refresh once im in a free email web based service

Demz, it isn't a problem with the refreshing of the service, if you look above where you receive your emails, there is a link that says 'refresh' so that you refresh, this is just a basic refresh script and does the same as what it would you if you press F5 or the refresh button (w/e)...

I don't see why they have sent that email, are you sure it isn't just an april fool's by somebody or something, have you tried using gmail?!... I can't see why they would send that, unless somebody with a dodgy IP or proxy tried to access your gmail ... I don't know, I didn't think that gmail systems would be that smart to do so... I only know of paypal doing that .

They've fixed it now .  Thanks for all the comments everyone.