Warning! Gmail users beware, fake upgrade emails

[bwana]

Something to keep in mind even if this particular phishing scam has been taken down

UPDATE: According to a comment on digg, gmailupgrades.com has been taken down.

Important FYI update for any Gmail users. If you receive the following email in your Gmail account, do not follow the embedded link. With the recent announcement of Google paid Google storage upgrades, the following phishing emails will undoubtedly become more and more the norm.

Dear Gmail customer
From now if you need more than 2 GB of space use this invitation and upgrade your account to 100 GB of space also you can register one free domain name via this invitation
your account upgrade will done after 24 hours
your invitation code is: http://gmailupgrades.com/Gmail-Account-Upgrade/…/
Thank You​

As seen on Digg

If you did happen to fall for it go change your password . . now!

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Thanks for the heads up, will pass on the message to everyone I know.

 

[LabAnimal]

The English in that email is pretty bad!.

 

[GavinMannion]

It always suprises me how many people fall for this sort of thing...

Thanks for posting it though...

 

[Conspirator]

Surely they can backtrack who registered the domain & then shove a shotgun up his

 

[gregmcc]

Domain Name:gmailupgrades.com
Record created:2007/8/20
Record expired:2008/8/20


Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.bverify.com ns2.bverify.com

Administrat:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- ***************@absolutee.com
Technical Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- ***************@absolutee.com
Billing Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- ***************@absolutee.com
Registrant Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- ***************@absolutee.com

 

[native]

It always suprises me how many people fall for this sort of thing...

Thanks for posting it though...

If people can fall for the iBurst 40MB package then i believe they will fall for this one.

Thanx for the headup

 

[GavinMannion]

If people can fall for the iBurst 40MB package then i believe they will fall for this one.

Thanx for the headup

lol good point