Email From Google - Inactive Gmail Account???

[Breyean]

Today I got and email supposedly from Google that my Gmail account has
been inactive and will be closed if I don't click on a link in the
email to reactivate it.

For on thing, the account they have in the email is not mine. I never
heard of the email address they cite as being mine.

Second, the email came to my regular Gmail account, which is my primary
email address.

Finally, the request to log in to the "inactive" account by using a
link sent to me in an email seems fishy.

Anyone else get one of these?

Seems like spam to me.

[Fuzzy Logic]

Very common virus, Sober.o, I believe. Just delete it.

Fuzzy
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"Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
*Lewis Cass {1782-1866 American Politician}

[Mark Dorett]

They're phishing for info. I suggest you report it to google directly.

On 6/24/05, Breyean <bre...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Nicky]

What Is The Address Of That Person Who Sent You It? Include Everything Here With Person's E-Mail.

[Adam]

This is absolutely, positively a phishing attack.

[Breyean]

Here's the message:

The Gmail Team
<gmail-...@gmail.com> to me
Hide options 1:03 am (7 hours ago)
From: The Gmail Team <gmail-...@gmail.com>
To: bre...@gmail.com
Date: 24 Jun 2005 00:03:26 -0800
Subject: Your Gmail account has been inactive for a long time
Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Add sender to Contacts list |
Trash this message | Report not phishing | Show original

Hi there,

We've noticed that you haven't used your Gmail account,
oneye...@gmail.com, for quite some time. In order to make Gmail
better for our users, we've added a lot of things in the last few
months and we hope you'll want to start using your account again. Here
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- And lots more, including support for more browsers, an improved
Contacts list, and an easier way to send photos.

We're still working hard every day to build you the best email service
around. But to keep Gmail great for our users, we may have to close
inactive accounts after 9 months. So, we hope you'll give us another
chance. To log in to your Gmail account, just visit:
http://gmail.google.com.

Thanks,
The Gmail Team

==
We sent you this message because we wanted to warn you of your
account's inactivity and remind you of our dormant account policies.
For more details, please visit our Help Center:

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[Luka Kladaric]

sorry to disappoint you, but this is not a phishing attack... these
links couldn't possibly link to anything other than Gmail


the purpose of the email, however, escapes me.

On 6/24/05, Breyean <bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

--
Free Willy Wonka

[web...@gmail.com]

Breyean,

This email addy they're referring to; is that anyone you know of...e.g. is it in your Contact list in your ordinary Gmail account?

Webby

 

On 6/24/05, Breyean <bre...@gmail.com> wrote:

--
one G-d, many faiths...one world to share

[Breyean]

Nope. That address is not in my Contacts.

And as I said, the email was sent to MY Gmail account, which is
DIFFERENT from the one in the email.

I reported it to Google. Let's see if anything comes back.

[T. M. Tracy]

well, it DID list dormant accounts that I have...so I'm assuming they
sent it to me because this was listed as my alt address when I opened
the account...

[T. M. Tracy]

no one said that he has to be in your contacts...but if you sent an
invite out to someone, if they don't know what they are doing, they
leave your address as the secondary email. I'm getting them for all
the gmail addresses that I have that I havent used for awhile. they
are accounts that I opened for invite farming back a long time ago.

On 6/24/05, Breyean <bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

I have to agree with Luka here. This doesn't look like a phishing
attempt. I received one of those just a few minutes ago, to let me
know that my brother's account hasn't been used in a while. I suppose
they made a search on which accounts were created by the same
originating ip address or similar.

Fanis

On 6/24/05, Luka Kladaric <allix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[T. M. Tracy]

but you go ahead and think whatever...but if you look at the header
info, it's all legit.

[web...@gmail.com]

That makes sense, Tracy!

Webby

 

On 6/24/05, T. M. Tracy <tmt...@gmail.com> wrote:

[StuB...@gmail.com]

Sorry but you are quite wrong there.

With html emails it's very easy to have links look like one thing but
point to another.

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.google.com</a>

Where will the above link take you? If you said yahoo then you are
right, if you said google then you are using a html enabled mail client
and might have fallen for a phishing attack.

It looks like this email was copy and pasted from the gmail window, in
which case google gropus turns it into a link for you. To see where the
original email came from and where the links pointed to, you have to
click "more options" then "show original"

That will give you something that looks like this.

X-Gmail-Received: 6476723e3097d88e655c636d29b976707de39e6f
Delivered-To: xxx...@gmail.com
Received: by 10.54.24.52 with SMTP id 52cs26328wrx;
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.36.222.77 with SMTP id u77mr3023980nzg;
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
<grbounce-MH5w-gcAAACp8ZsDLTncXw0jbCeUx_s8=xxxxxx=gmai...@googlegroups.com>
Received: from mproxy.googlegroups.com (mproxy.googlegroups.com
[216.239.56.131])
by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id
22si3685024nzn.2005.06.25.00.36.41;
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (gmail.com: domain of
grbounce-MH5w-gcAAACp8ZsDLTncXw0jbCeUx_s8=xxxxxxxx=gmai...@googlegroups.com
designates 216.239.56.131 as permitted sender)
Message-Id: <42bd098a.696bc36b.302...@mx.gmail.com>
Received: by mproxy.googlegroups.com with SMTP id s54so903710cwc
for <xxx...@gmail.com>; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.11.53.59 with SMTP id b59mr60339cwa;
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gmail-Users group <nor...@googlegroups.com>
To: Gmail-Users abridged email subscribers
<Gmail...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: 27 new messages in 4 topics - abridged
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:36:32 +0000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

>From this it is quite easy to check that 216.239.56.131 actually points
to mproxy.googlegroups.com (one of the machines that handled this email
) this can be done for all SMTP servers to makes sure it really is
coming from where it said it was. Whithout this info, I wouldn't be
clicking on any of the links and using my Gmail password.

Stu

[dizdaz89]

It certainly looks like one to me

[GMail Inactive]

I already received such e-mail several hours ago. According to the
help page, GMail will delete accounts inactive for 90 days.

Noong 05:28 AM 6/25/2005, Ang sabi ni Fanis Hatzidakis...

[Patrick Basister]

i received one of those emails over the weekend.

 

all of a sudden i remembered I had an email address i created but havent checked in months.

 

[Pip]

I have had 3 of these today. All gmail accounts are owned by members
of my family who I sent the original inviations to and who are
apparently a bit slack about using their accounts. I am not sure why
they sent the activation notices to me however. I checked with one and
was told that no activation notice had gone to the gmail account.

They were identical to the email mentioned in this thread.

Funny way to do things.

Pip

[bria...@gmail.com]

Does your browser have an address bar? Can't you just check that the
address has the domain "gmail.google.com" or "google.com" in it?

[Steven McDougall]

I've got mail.google.com....

[bria...@gmail.com]

So have I, I forgot about it - apparently, it's a new domain.

[Yude.Bi]

I thank there is a small problem to display HTML file In Gmail.

[Luka Kladaric]

yes, that's a common bug with webmail system (including Gmail). they
ignore in-document or externally linked CSS style sheets. the only way
to style emails is to use inline styles.

On 7/15/05, Yude.Bi <biy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thank there is a small problem to display HTML file In Gmail.
> >
>
>

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Freak out or get out

[Shayne Seymour]

Could it be a browser difference? Outlook is viewing the page with
Word instead of IE?

On 7/15/05, Yude.Bi <biy...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Luka Kladaric]

no. it's CSS.