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ATTN Gmail Users!

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I just received an email from someone acting like the Gmail Team warning me of new services from google. Here's the message:
As you know, Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

The Gmail, together with the Google is creating new services for its webmail. As we have modified our database, we ask you to create a new password to your account. This process may happen again until Gmail become steady.

Some immediate services and implantation on Gmail:
  • Attached files through web with sizes of up to 100mb
  • "Autocomplete" implementation
  • E-mail grouping by folders, sender and dates
  • Integrated accounts for all Google services (eg.: Google, Google Store)
This update also guarantees that your account remains active after the all implementations of the services!

Sorry for the inconvenience. We hope you enjoy all new advantage features!
It gives you a form on the right to submit your username and password, and lets you change your password to a new one. It then submits to http://www.topdez.com/sg/index.php, which results in a normal looking google error.

The sender's name is "services" from "services@gmail.com".

If you get one of these messages, please do not fill in your username/password.
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Post by qads »

that site looks like some dating site..or something, did you tell google about it phice? :o, bet they gona hassle the host and get it shutdown :P
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Post by phice »

I sent a support ticket informing them of the issue, so hopefully they will take care of it. ^_^

Here's the orignal header from the email:
Delivered-To: donwilson@gmail.com
Received: by 10.38.92.52 with SMTP id p52cs1145rnb;
Tue, 6 Jul 2004 05:32:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.11.100.53 with SMTP id x53mr389737cwb;
Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <topdez2@aquarius.lunarpages.com>
Received: from 64.235.234.223 (HELO aquarius.lunarpages.com)
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id v10si411066cwb;
Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from topdez2 by aquarius.lunarpages.com with local (Exim 4.34)
id 1Bhp8y-0003VV-Fq
for donwilson@gmail.com; Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:33:52 -0700
To: donwilson@gmail.com
Subject: Gmail account update
From: services@gmail.com
Content-Type: text/html
Message-Id: <E1Bhp8y-0003VV-Fq@aquarius.lunarpages.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:33:52 -0700
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - aquarius.lunarpages.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32845 1325] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - aquarius.lunarpages.com
X-Source:
X-Source-Args:
X-Source-Dir:
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Post by magicrobotmonkey »

wow didnt take them long to attack gmail, huh. Lukily they don't know english too well. You'd have to be pretty slow to think that was actually from google
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magicrobotmonkey wrote:Lukily they don't know english too well. You'd have to be pretty slow to think that was actually from google
Could you imagine there are people who don't know English at all? ;) So those subtle linguistic nuances you noticed might not catch the eye of the one not so familiar with english as you are.
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Post by magicrobotmonkey »

oh yea good point
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Post by m3mn0n »

Or the people who skim through messages wouldn't catch some of the grammar mistakes made there. There is always a few who fall for scams like this. Hopefully it was nobody who had a lot of messages within their account.
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Post by phice »

I skim through emails and thats what made me follow up through the form, but luckily I changed my password as soon as I figured it out.
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