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Who Else Has Received This Fishing Email Claiming To Be From Gmail?

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.

Tags: fishing, gmail, google, spam

Google – Heartless Killer of Cute Animals

With their plans for World Domination™ already in full swing, Google has begun killing off the competition – literally.

The deer, only a minor contender for world domination, saw it’s hay-day back in 1942 with the release of Bambi. Bambi images dominated the market, seen on anything from coffee mugs to diapers and left no corner of the globe untapped. Their careful publicity techniques cemented the ideal that deer are majestic creatures with big eyes and bigger hearts. Leveraging their excellent publicity, the deer were able to quickly buy key lawmakers and decision-makers. They have influenced the global economy ever since.

But with Google’s meteoric rise and subsequent domination of the blogotubes, they have been steadily entering the political and social arenas. With their latest push, Google is casting out it’s smaller rivals, and dealing with the others in less than friendly terms.

Was this horrifying evidence of Google’s negotiation tactics simply forgotten, or was it left for a reason? Perhaps it’s meant as an example to anyone who stands in their way.

Don’t Be Evil.

[Google Just Killed Bambi]

Tags: google

Gmail adds Multiple Inboxes

Yesterday, Gmail intruduced a new feature in the labs: Multiple Inboxes.

First thought when I heard about it? “Oh, now I can stop forwarding my student account and other Gmail based accounts to my main account and just access them all from the same space.” You know, 9 accounts were given to the Christian, but in secret another ring was forged…

I was only mildly disappointed.

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Tags: email, google, Webapps