Who Else Has Received This Fishing Email Claiming To Be From Gmail?
March 15th, 2009 Posted in Hacks and Mods
This special thing about this one is that the spam filters let it through. Usually those spam filters catch just about everything. I’m impressed.
It almost looks official. All of the links in the email go to their correct addresses at Google, except of course for the “Click Here to update your account” one.
It goes to some website at http://accupdategmail.110mb.com, which is a pretty good spoof of the gmail login page. Except that the space counter doesn’t go up, and it’s only at 2 gigs instead of the 7+ that we have here in 2009. If you’re fool enough to log in, the page captures your account name and password and dumps you back to the real login page.
Needless to say, I wrote a nasty message in the “password” section.
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March 15th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I got it on Friday… it was a pretty well written email. It almost had me fooled… but I wasn’t about to click on a link in that email that wasn’t even on google’s domain.
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Me. I also almost clicked on it.