Another fake gmail message arrived in select accounts this week. Just a quick reminder that ANYONE asking for your date of birth or more importantly your password is ALWAYS fake.
Here is a copy of what this fake email looks like:
From: “Gmail” <verifyinscevcsse@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:27:40 -0700
To: <info.support@google.com>
Subject: Email Access Verification
We are undertaking some essential and extensive maintenance to improve Google Mail. During the maintenance period, some users experienced problems accessing there Google Mail. We need to avoid this occurrence from happening to every Account. Please verified your login information below so as to keep your Account active and properly secured in our Database.
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Full Name * :
* Email ID * :
* Password * :
* Profession * :
* Year of Birth * :
* Country * :
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Warning !!
Account Owners who refuses to Participate in the Verification process after receiving this message will loose his/her Account within 48hours Automatically.
We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Googlemail Team
Completely fake. Please be sure to select the checkbox for this message in the Inbox and press the SPAM button.