Monday, May 18, 2009

[spam and scam] does this fall into that category

Latest scam?

Email Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ

Gmail Team

Dear Account Owner,
Dear Account User,

This Email is from Gmail customer care and we are sending it to every Gmail accounts owner for safety. We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion in all Gmail users and removal of all unused Gmail Accounts. Gmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts, you will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

* User name: ............................

* Password: ................................

* Date of Birth: ............................

* Country Or Territory: ....................

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank you for using Gmail !

The Gmail Team
G MAI L BETA

7 comments:

  1. Sounds very dodge to me. I'd say don't respond Gmail wouldn't ever send out an email that asks people to fill in personal info.

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  2. Quite clearly a scam - though a slightly more clever one than usual.

    No reputable company would EVER ask you to send them your username and password.

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  3. An interesting aside to this is that the English shows 'Russianness', my gmail is Russian so I think it was sent to what they saw as Russian speakers.

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  4. It sounds like spammers looking to hijack mailboxes.

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  5. Yes spam... I could go on and on about how these idiots try to dupe people!

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