WARNING: GMAIL phishing attempt

mvl · 07-22-2009, 10:43 PM

Today I received an email, supposedly from "the gmail team" but it is obviously a phishing attempt to retrieve gmail login information. Some of you might use gmail for any of your domain contacts: watch out. The mail is quoted below:

Quote:

Dear Gmail customer,
We are proud to announce that today our team have published the newest email system 'Gmail 2.0' with over hundreds of new features.

What are the new features of 'Gmail 2.0' ?
Ability to disable or edit the relevant ads
Advance attachment uploading
Automaticaly organized archivment
New Chat features
Backup and restore section
And more

You are one of the members who have been randomly chosen to test this version of this email system.

Click in the link below to login to the new email system using your current Gmail address!

<------link removed------>

- The Gmail Team

The domain involved is beta2-gmail.com which was registered just yesterday using anonymous registration.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/598264-warning-gmail-phishing-attempt.html
I emailed abuse(at)godaddy.com about this, the domain was regged at GD.

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