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Warning! Gmail users beware, fake upgrade emails

By: rahul6570 Verified Member MouthShut Verified Member | Posted May 13, 2010 | General | 1452 Views

If you receive the following email in your Gmail account, do not follow the embedded link. With the recent announcement of Google paid Google storage upgrade, the following phishing emails will undoubtedly become more and more the norm.


--EMAIL START--Dear Gmail customer


From now if you need more than 2 GB of space use this invitation and upgrade your account to 100 GB of space also you can register one free domain name via this invitation


your account upgrade will done after 24 hours


your invitation code is: https://gmailupgrades.com/Gmail-Account-Upgrade/…/


Thank You


Gmail Support Department


--EMAIL ENDS--


The email From: address is gmail-noreply@google.com. However, the "Mailed-by:" domain is marauder.websitewelcome.com. The link redirects to a website which looks very much like Gmail.


If did follow the link and entered your Google Account username and password, immediately visit Google’s Account Management [google.com/accounts/ManageAccount] to change your password.


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