Google Alert ... for real?

BeVonk!

BeVonk!

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Anyone else got this? Looks very suspicious.

Attn. Gmail Client,

We are informing you about a regular routine maintenace
of our servers. It is very important you verify your email
access to match with your profile records with us.

Please click below to verify now.

Click here to Continue.

Please ensure you enter your sensitive details correctly
to prevent future online service denial.

Google Services.
 
Lol,no

Out of interest where does the <here> link point to
 
Overly threatening message,while you are signed in to your account asking you to verify details - likely
 
The GMail spam filter works very well but this one sneaked through. How long before these buggers get their grammar etc right to make it virtually impossible to identify threats?
 
The spelling and grammatical errors weren't an immediate red flag for you?
 
Oh yeah,post the reply-to address and headers

Only 100% way would be to enforce domainkeys/spf for email - they'd have a challenge faking that
 
DJ... said:
The spelling and grammatical errors weren't an immediate red flag for you?
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Also consider that for those with English as second or third language it may not always be so easy to see the obvious mistakes.
 
BeVonk! said:
Why I became suspicious. But how long before this is not so obvious any more?
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Its always something that will happen, and they will catch millions of people that will actually enter detail into it, that's why phishing pays.

It will always be obvious to the trained eye, they not after them, as the trained people would be on 2 step Auth anyway, they want the grandma's and tech noobs that will leave an hijacked account for weeks if not months.
 
Would fail a basic SPF check - sad thing is that so few mail providers actually enable SPF/domainkeys. It would cut a huge amount of spam out entirely
 
It is very important you verify your email access to match with your profile records with us.
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Yeah right, that alone is red-flag-worthy.
 
PsyWulf said:
Would fail a basic SPF check - sad thing is that so few mail providers actually enable SPF/domainkeys. It would cut a huge amount of spam out entirely
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That would be counter productive.... as many make money selling bandwidth... even if its between each other :)
 
I usually look at the actual URL's in these emails, even if their spelling is perfect, their fake site will always have some obvious flags in the URL's, thinks like weird domain names or domains hosted in strange countries.
 
BeVonk! said:
The GMail spam filter works very well but this one sneaked through. How long before these buggers get their grammar etc right to make it virtually impossible to identify threats?
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since they are mostly russian, Never.
 
The only legitimate alerts I know of from Google is where I used to request an alert for specific news stories related to specific tags.

Not sure if that facility still exists.
 
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