Fake Personal message from Gmail Service – spam

  • 17 March 2014
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 Personal message from Gmail Service is an alternative version of the Fake Facebook messages.  Just like the Facebook versions these either take you to a Women’s Health page trying to sell you fake drugs for slimming or other women’s problems. Other days they send you to one of the Canadian or Russian Pharmacy pages  selling Viagra, valium or other illegal drugs.


Fake Personal message from Gmail Service


Always hover over the links in these emails and you will see that they do not lead to Gmail.  Do not click on the links, just delete the emails as soon as they arrive.
 Thee is always the very high possibility that one of the other botnets will use these to send you to a malicious site where your computer will be infected, rather than trying to scam you out of money by selling fake medicines that could kill you.
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I get these all the time. When I had opened my gmail account some years ago, I was ignorance towards phishing and online security. I gave away my email address to every form that I would fill. Now I get all sorts of spam emails in my spam folder. Roughly 20 to 25 everyday.
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There at it again ugh.
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The following article is a update on Fake Personal Message's from Gmail
(Beware of fake "Gmail suspicious login" warnings)
Author: Zeljka Zorz HNS Managing Editor
 
 
Malicious emails impersonating Gmail Account Services have been spotted hitting inboxes around the world, falsely claiming that the users' Gmail account has been logged into from an unrecognized device.

"Even though the email message is similar to a legitimate Gmail message, a careful user will note that the displayed e-mail address and the supposed source address did not match. Further examination of the email’s headers indicates that the email was, in fact, sent via a website’s mail form," pointed out Trend Micro techie Jay Yaneza.

Also, all the links in the email ("Change your password", "Update your account password reset info", "Help Center"), as well as the "Check Your Account" button, lead to a HTML file hosted on Google Drive.
 
Help Net Security/ Full Article Here/ http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2841
 

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