How To Recognize Gmail Scams And Phishing
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Publish Date: 10/06/2011 5:10
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Publish Date: 10/06/2011 15:25
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Is This A Gmail Scam?
I read the post about OEM scams so thought that I’d ask you a question.
I’ve got a gmail account and just got an email that’s supposedly from Google which I imagine is a phishing scam but I can’t be sure.
Here is the content ..
Dear Account User,
There is a problem with our Server Admin Database.Due to the clash we had on our Database, we were unable to access your information to prevent your account from being affected of the ”Virus”as well as protecting your account from been deleted permanently.
The reason we are sending this e-mail is to notify every Account Owner for safety precaution. We are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of other accounts so we are shutting down some accounts.
Your account was among those to be CLOSED. We are sending you this email so that you can verify and let us know if you still intend using this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.
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.
* Username: ………………………..
* Password: …………………………
* Date of Birth: ……………………….
* Country Or Territory: …………….After following the information , your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences,all these would had caused.
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Thanks for using Gmail (Gmail Team)
I don’t want to give the information but I don’t want to lose my account, so what should I do?
Thanks
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The first thing to do when you get an email that looks suspicious is to compare the senders reply email address with the address that the email came from and if they’re radically different then the email is almost certainly a scam.
Obvious examples would be:
From: info@paypal.com in the from field and reply to: zeeuer123@hotmail.com
Another example would be that you get an email from someone that you know asking you to financially help a friend that you’ve never heard of that lives in another country. If this happens simply email or call your friend and if they didn’t send the email then the friend’s email account has been hacked.
And last but not least, you might be wondering if there are additional reasons why someone would go to all the trouble of hacking an email account.
Well there are.
Most people use the same password for all their accounts, so just imagine all the opportunities that that will provide. The hacker sees emails that you’ve received from your bank etc. and he will try to access it using the same password that he used to get into your email account.
And all too often, “bingo” he’s hit gold!
It starts with opening the email message. As soon as you open a message, you should begin noticing some things aren’t quite right.
Legitimate institutions that send out emails to their customers usually send them from an email address that’s associated with their web site.
Phishers, that is, criminals who send out emails trying to capture your personal information will use any means necessary to get you to respond, and that includes marking email messages Urgent.
All phishing emails have one thing in common: links that don’t lead where they appear to.
One way to tell if what you see is really where you’ll end up is to place your pointer over the link.
But don’t click it!
A pop-up window should appear with the actual URL attached to the link.
In phishing emails, this address rarely matches what’s displayed in the email!
A very common tactic that phishers use is telling email recipients that ‘regular maintenance’ turned up an account error of some type.
Don’t fall for this!
Phishing is one of the most prevalent identity theft scams you’ll encounter on the web.
It’s estimated that about 75 to 150 million phishing emails are sent out daily.