Google’s Confusing Gmail Security Alert Looks Exactly Like a Phishing Attempt

  • 16 January 2018
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Security researchers say the legitimate email is training people to have bad email hygiene.

 
January 16th, 2018  By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
 
Last week, my partner got a strange email alert from Google—or at least it looked like it came from Google.
 


 
Alarmed and confused, she immediately forwarded it to me.
 
“What the what?” she wrote in the email.
 
My partner is not a security geek like I am, and yet I had the same reaction when I saw it. Both when she forwarded it to me last week, and when I got an identical alert today.
 
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that's pretty sad when googles response was
 
"this is the type of email that gets the most engagement"
 
>>it looka like a scam
>>gets the most hits
 
seemslegit
lol

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