New Gmail Scam making the rounds

By Dan Morrill on March 29, 2011

Again with the warnings: do not click on that link or reply to that email a new Gmail scam is making the rounds today. Don’t give out your e-mail information, including user name and password.

The e-mail contains this text:

We are shutting down some accounts due to congestion in our database system and your account was chosen to be deleted. If you are still interested in using our email service please click reply and fill in the space below for verification purpose:-

UserName:

PassWord:

Phone:

Country:

Note: This email is only for Gmail users (Users should reply within 48 hours to avoid “Permanently Lockup” Account)

Thank you for using Gmail !

The Gmail Team

The email comes in looking like this, and looks like a legit e-mail address for Google.

If you get something like this, it is not an e-mail from Google, but something to be aware of, and something to be careful about.

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Dan Morrill

Dan Morrill works in Interactive Media and Cloud delivery systems for Comics Forge as the COO. He has been blogging since 2003 covering different emerging technologies, management and information security. Dan works as a founding member of a number of startups, including Startup Academy International and Dead Tree Comics. His interests are in intellectual property protection, piracy, and information security as it applies to cloud computing. He also has a deep interest in media, mobile computing, and education.. His personal blog is here, his other pro-blog is here .

One response to “New Gmail Scam making the rounds”

Orphen March 29, 2011 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the heads-up. It’s hard for me to imagine people who actually reply to this stuff nowadays (although it obviously happens). Google rolling the dice and deleting your account? Uncharacteristic grammar (for most “professional” businesses). It screams spam.