Odd Message From Google's G-mail

[phetaroi]

I'm guessing it's fake...although it sure did look good, but I got the following email this morning. I'd appreciate your thoughts:

"Dear Member,

We are shutting down some email accounts and your account was automatically chosen to be deleted. If you are still interested in using our email service please fill in the space below for verification purpose by clicking the reply button. Learn more

Account:

Password:

Birth date:

Country:

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank you for using Gmail !

The Gmail Team

GMAIL"

[Curt1591]

I'm guessing it's fake

Good guess!

[webfact]

Fake!

[filingaccount]

Translated:

"We are a bunch of script kiddies/419'ers who have figured out there are more suckers than we can count out there in the world, and we'd like you to be one of them so please give us your account details and if you wouldn't mind your personal details, social security & credit card numbers. That would be great, mmk. Thanks very much.

/The bad guys"

[webfact]

you should forward that email (headers included) to Gmail. They have a team to deal with that kind of scam

[ManilaLover]

Did you check the sender ?

Right of the 'reply' button (upper right of the message) click on the blue arrow, choose 'show original' from the dropdown list and check the 'to' and 'from' info.

Important is to never reply to such message because then you confirm your active e-mail address that's what they probably do it for !

This 'replies' are of high value for spamcompanies.

Read also (click)

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When you see an e-mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, or sign this petition, for good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks cookies and e-mails of the people you forward to. The host sender gets a copy each time it is forwarded and then is able to get lists of active e-mails adresses to use in spam e-mails, or sell to other spammers.

You can do your friends and family members a great favor by sending this information to them, you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam e-mails in the future !

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Edited February 3, 2010 by ManilaLover

[phetaroi]

you should forward that email (headers included) to Gmail. They have a team to deal with that kind of scam

I'd love to. For the life of me I can't figure out how to contact Google.

[webfact]

you should forward that email (headers included) to Gmail. They have a team to deal with that kind of scam

I'd love to. For the life of me I can't figure out how to contact Google.

here you go

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request...=abuse_spoofing

[phetaroi]

you should forward that email (headers included) to Gmail. They have a team to deal with that kind of scam

I'd love to. For the life of me I can't figure out how to contact Google.

here you go

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request...=abuse_spoofing

Thank you!!!! I sent the info in.

[Phil Conners]

Just pull down the "reply bar" and select "report phishing". All done in the blink of an eye.