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13Gigatons · May 8, 2011

Dear User(s),

Thank you for being a Gmail! user for the past few year(s). We look forward to bringing you an even faster, safer, easier-to-use Gmail! very soon. In the coming months, we will ask you to upgrade to the newest version of Gmail! Mail for your account. All Gmail Mail customers will be asked to upgrade. But in the meantime, we want to verify your correspondence login details below on our database sysytem.

Email ID :

Password :

Confirm Password :

Present State/Country :

Warning: Our Account registration team will eliminate or delete all Users Account permanently, if the details above are not received for verification upon receipt of this notification.
Thanks for Using our Service.

HAL9000 · May 8, 2011

13Gigatons said:
Dear User(s),

Thank you for being a Gmail! user for the past few year(s). We look forward to bringing you an even faster, safer, easier-to-use Gmail! very soon. In the coming months, we will ask you to upgrade to the newest version of Gmail! Mail for your account. All Gmail Mail customers will be asked to upgrade. But in the meantime, we want to verify your correspondence login details below on our database sysytem.

Email ID :

Password :

Confirm Password :

Present State/Country :

Warning: Our Account registration team will eliminate or delete all Users Account permanently, if the details above are not received for verification upon receipt of this notification.
Thanks for Using our Service.

Christ! Can you forward me the e-mail, I haven't got it and I can't lose my gmail account!

Just send it along with your bank account details to:

microsoft.headquarters@apple.com

Soccerman06 · May 8, 2011

What is the purpose of taking an email from someone?

HAL9000 · May 8, 2011

Soccerman06 said:
What is the purpose of taking an email from someone?

To send out e-mails like this from legit e-mail addresses.

KaOTiK · May 8, 2011

Soccerman06 said:
What is the purpose of taking an email from someone?

A lot of people store sensitive info in an email sent to themselves. You can also look through pass emails to see where people have accounts and can then go and change the accounts passwords since you now have access to the email as well.

Sa7aN · May 8, 2011

Soccerman06 said:
What is the purpose of taking an email from someone?

identity theft among many other things

lxskllr · May 8, 2011

Here's one I recently found in my spam folder. Links have been removed to protect the innocent. I accidentally clicked a link, and it did weird things to my browser. Glad I'm on Ubuntu, but I'll have to double check all my browser settings.

INTRODUCING UPGRADED ADOBE ACROBAT READER

Adobe is pleased to announce new version upgrades for Adobe Acrobat Reader

Download Now To Try It Out

Advanced features include:

- Collaborate across borders
- Create rich, polished PDF files from any application that prints
- Ensure visual fidelity
- Encrypt and share PDF files more securely
- Use the standard for document archival and exchange

To upgrade and enhance your work productivity today, go to:

Adobe Acrobat Reader Upgrade Center

Start downloading the update right now and let us know what you think about it.

We're working on making Adobe Acrobat Reader better all the time !

Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.

Adobe Systems Incorporated
343 Preston Street
Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4
Canada

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AyashiKaibutsu · May 8, 2011

A lot of other accounts you can get them to send your username/password to your registered email address.

olds · May 8, 2011

grrl · May 8, 2011

KaOTiK said:
A lot of people store sensitive info in an email sent to themselves.

Really? WTF?

Edit: I get the same Gmail spam message almost every month.

KaOTiK · May 8, 2011

grrl said:
Really? WTF?

Edit: I get the same Gmail spam message almost every month.

Yeah, I've meet people who email themselves a list of login info for various sites they have accounts on.

grrl · May 8, 2011

KaOTiK said:
Yeah, I've meet people who email themselves a list of login info for various sites they have accounts on.

I guess a password storing program is too complicated for them.

Pardus · May 8, 2011

13Gigatons said:
Dear User(s),

Thank you for being a Gmail! user for the past few year(s). We look forward to bringing you an even faster, safer, easier-to-use Gmail! very soon. In the coming months, we will ask you to upgrade to the newest version of Gmail! Mail for your account. All Gmail Mail customers will be asked to upgrade. But in the meantime, we want to verify your correspondence login details below on our database sysytem.

Email ID :

Password :

Confirm Password :

Present State/Country :

Warning: Our Account registration team will eliminate or delete all Users Account permanently, if the details above are not received for verification upon receipt of this notification.
Thanks for Using our Service.

If it was from gmail, it would say dear ABCDEF, instead Dear User(s), then closing says "Thanks for Using our Service", it should read "Thank you for using our service"

Scammers and bad grammar go hand in hand. Here is how to prevent email identity theft, hit DELETE.

cKGunslinger · May 8, 2011

Last week at work, I got a phone call from "Your company's IT department" warning me that I had some trojan/virus problem that he had to take care of immediately. And so as not to slow down my work, I could just give him my account info and he'd "work it from his end."

When asking for info from him, he told me his name was "Hector" and I should just refer to my caller ID for his number.

Since I was pretty busy, I went ahead and gave him everything he wanted.

Fritzo · May 8, 2011

KaOTiK said:
A lot of people store sensitive info in an email sent to themselves. You can also look through pass emails to see where people have accounts and can then go and change the accounts passwords since you now have access to the email as well.

Not only that, but they're great to send spam.

destrekor · May 8, 2011

BTW, that whole OP... I hate it, and thus you because of it.

I read the title, thought "ooo, let's see what this here says we have in store for us", and then I was reading the directions and felt quite ecstatic. And then the punchline.

And then I re-read the spam message and saw it looks like the entire thing was actually written for Yahoo! and simply scrubbed the word yahoo and replaced it with gmail.
"Gmail! Mail" really? :hmm:

ThatsABigOne · May 8, 2011

Send the reply right now! It is not fake!

zCypher · May 9, 2011

hahaha.. I've actually not received this one yet. I <3 gmail, been using it for quite a few years now. I've never once had any problem with it and have never found an interface I like more anywhere else so far. It just keeps getting better too.

I'm kinda curious about how many people actually reply to these emails and get scammed.

Andy22 · May 9, 2011

grrl said:
I guess a password storing program is too complicated for them.

Not sure if this will work but...

- Go to Paypal.com (or any other website)
- Forgot password
- Enter email address
- Get new password
- Profit?

No guarantee they will have a paypal or ebay account under their Gmail but there is a good chance they will.

Pardus · May 9, 2011

Andy22 said:
Not sure if this will work but...

- Go to Paypal.com (or any other website)
- Forgot password
- Enter email address
- Get new password
- Profit?

No guarantee they will have a paypal or ebay account under their Gmail but there is a good chance they will.

forget password doesn't display the password on screen, they email it to the address on file.

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