Gmail is one online service that’s constantly targeted by email scammers, and fraud artists. In fact, Gmail accounts scams have been with us since Gmail came on the scene.
This morning I received another email, purportedly from the Gmail Help Team, in which the spam scammer attempts to convince me that this is the genuine article.
Just like most of these type of emails though, this one contains the usual misspelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors.
Due to the congestion in our Gmail servers,there would be removal of all unused Gmail Accounts.
You will have to confirm if your E-mail is still active by filling out your login info below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
Account name:
Password:
Country :Note: This email is only for Account owner.
Thank you for using Gmail !
The Gmail Team
It looks convincing enough, that some new Gmail users might easily be taken in. I know that you won’t be deceived by this type of clumsy attempt to defraud, but you would be surprised how often reasonably intelligent people are.
In this case the following issues raised immediate questions.
No personalized greeting.
The reply form asks for information that I initially supplied to Gmail when I activated my account.
The reply form asks me to provide my password. Isn’t this supposed to be kept secret even from Gmail?
Common sense advice: If you have any doubts about the legitimacy of any email message and its attachment, delete them.
If you are unsure of an emails legitimacy, then take a look at the headers. For example, to do this is Gmail –
Log in to Gmail.
Open the message you’d like to view headers for.
Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top-right of the message pane.
Select Show original.
Check the initial “Received from” field in the header, since this field is difficult to forge.
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I’m really surprised that this gets past the Google email filters and makes it into your in box. There are certain phrases that Google could key in on in this and the other email you shared with us, and drop it into a”possibly malicious” vice spam folder. Google needs to step up its game.
“Google needs to step up its game” – by a quantum leap! It seems like a no-brainer – I just don’t get it.
Thanks for coming by.
Bill
Bill,
And the beat goes on – indefinitely it seems!
Thanks.
Liam
Hey Liam,
And on, and on, and on, and ………..
Bill
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Damn Rod – I laughed so hard, I almost chocked to death. Still can’t get the smile off my face. Totally hilarious.
Bill
This is what happened to my Yahoo Mail. I was receiving a lot of supposedly mail from Yahoo which I know were phishing attempts and I never even opened one. But still, one by one my subscriptions stopped until I couldn’t access my account anymore.
Hey Pochp,
Sounds as if you were hacked.
Bill
I love the wording the on these messages, reminds me of an old movie I saw The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming it dates me back to the 60’s and had some comical scenes where the Russians were trying to get clear of a town they had landed in by accident. “Emergency everyone to get from street” I guess you have to see the movie.
Now its “Emergency everyone to click on link, Emergency!”
Regards
Mark
Hey Mark,
I remember that movie very well – very, very funny. Alan Arkin, I think – can’t remember the rest of the cast though.
Your comment is, (dare I say it), on the mark.
Best,
Bill
Good Article update on gmail . i really appreciate .Infact it’s certainly time for google and it’s team to act on such scammers .
thanks for info
Thanks for dropping by, scamreporter.
Bill
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