Here’s My Password, Gmail Team! (Pic)

 

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2009-09-10 21:00:12
CircuitDust

Looks legit..

2009-09-11 03:04:31
miaousse

Looks legit???? Why would they need your password?
Maybe missing fields creditcard number with, expire date and security number

2009-09-13 02:24:52
Cmon

Wow… you are really stupid.

2009-09-27 01:24:22
hector

He was being sarcastic.

2009-09-11 09:58:47

I’ll give them my credit card number, it’s starts with a 4 and ends with a 8, guess the rest.

Now come on, Google (Gmail) would never send an email to users like that. They can simply check accounts activitys and if not being used for say 6 months or so is a reason to close the account. Which I think HotMail does, yeah?

And running out of room, nah not when they have given me probably close to 2 gigabyte or more, havn’t checked for awhile.

If I was you I’d send a copy of this to Gmail team to alert them this eMail is getting around. Play safe, donot reply to any email asking for a password. Go to the site with your own bookmark, log in and that is where you would find if they want you to fill in any private information.

It’s getting around…

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5820a3268676e03c&hl=en

http://groups.google.com/group/hosted-settingup/browse_thread/thread/c6444c8896642a9c/f9f406d5a849e0f4?pli=1

CircuitDust Not Legit Sorry ;)

2009-09-11 10:22:54
why

Why is this being sent in the newsletter?

This was in the newsletter without any comments.

It’s obviously a scam / spam. But why is it important to post it???

2009-09-11 11:01:11

Because it is funny and shows you how creative spammers can be
:-)

2009-09-24 00:34:22

HAHA. Gmail is out of Beta, theres one clue.

I love scammers, they are so fun to toi with

2009-09-27 00:00:22
kos

love what they did for the security image

2009-09-28 06:04:08
Nizar

The funny thing is that some people really believe that s**t. A friend of mine with, let’s say, not the best internet experience was about to reply to such an email, pretendedly from Yahoo.
I like the “GMAIL Team email11245@gmail.com” thing, though. :-)

2009-09-29 15:40:41
G-10

Hey how come your security code is the same as mine?

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