Gmail Phishing Scam
@RawBill1 (8531)
Gold Coast, Australia
March 21, 2011 8:59pm CST
I just received this email in my Gmail inbox that appeared to come from Google. I thought it was a bit suspicious so I checked it out and it is a scam! 
"We urge all account users to Kindly verify your Login Information Above so as to make a correspondence with your details stored in our Database.We will be upgrading our Mailing system so as to give your account more security from Viruses and Hackers.
Account Owners who refuses to verify his/her details will loose their Account Automatically within 24hours.
Google Customer Dept."
Always copy and paste any suspect emails into search windows to check before giving any details to anyone!
Have you ever been scammed online for anything? 
"We urge all account users to Kindly verify your Login Information Above so as to make a correspondence with your details stored in our Database.We will be upgrading our Mailing system so as to give your account more security from Viruses and Hackers.
Account Owners who refuses to verify his/her details will loose their Account Automatically within 24hours.
Google Customer Dept."
Always copy and paste any suspect emails into search windows to check before giving any details to anyone!
Have you ever been scammed online for anything? 2 people like this
8 responses
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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22 Mar 11
At work I get a recurring almost daily e mail purporting to come from our ISP saying that unless I update my password and bank details immediately I will be locked out of the system. When I raised this with my ISP they told me that it was coming from Eastern Europe and to ignore it. Which is what I do. I am often asked to help miscellaneous Nigerians by looking after large sums of money for them. When I reply saying that i would be delighted to help them and will meet their representative at the airport with a police officer for added security they mysteriously vanish! I expect that they managed to find someone else to help them! LOL.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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22 Mar 11
I have stopped posting discussions on here as I no longer understand what myLot regards as acceptable. But I will continue to post responses. I do have a website just started where I act as the voice of two elderly ladies that like to opine on things. That will do for now. I have also been pointed in the direction of a couple of other social network sites and will explore those idc. It's a shame because I like myLot and it has been very good to me.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
27 Mar 11
Yes Bill, I've been scammed a few times by liars and cheats. I have learned my lesson each time and so I can be on the alert now.
This one you mentioned sounds pretty nasty, if I received that I would panic. So saying, I would probably not check first to see if it was a scam.
So I thank you very much for the heads up.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
28 Mar 11
I was lucky in that I ended up not losing any money. It was a case of opting to purchase goods then changing my mind and not completing the transaction but the transaction was completed by the other party...no goods arrived either. My bank fixed that one. My bank fixed over a hundred other people's accounts who were caught by the same company. That was just one bank.
The next couple of times were when I applied for a free trial and after submitting my payment info, was taken to the next page to find that I would be charged for two months worth, and receiving 3 months worth. I smelled a rat and closed the site but they charged me anyway. My bank disputed the matter and it took about 6 months to clear things up. It was a different bank and the second one made a real mess of things. I had to hound them, to get it all cleared up.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
4 Apr 11
Wow, that sucks but at least you got it fixed up in the end. I hope that there is a lesson there for you. Never put give your credit card details to anyone unless you one hundred percent trust them and know their business. Most legitimate businesses will always offer cheque payment and bank transfer as well as credit card. We have a lot of customers who use a debit card for their online purchases. This way, they only put the amount of money onto the card that they know they are going to use for the particular purchase. It takes planning, but is a lot safer.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
28 Mar 11
Sorry to hear about your previous experiences with being scammed. 
We were scammed by credit card fraud last year which cost us over $10,000! That hurt us financially for most of the year as it put us behind and we struggled to catch up for months. It changed the way that we run our business and was an expensive lesson! 
We were scammed by credit card fraud last year which cost us over $10,000! That hurt us financially for most of the year as it put us behind and we struggled to catch up for months. It changed the way that we run our business and was an expensive lesson! 1 person likes this
@Wizzywig (7847)
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22 Mar 11
Well, I've had 4 emails from the tax office this week telling me I've overpaid some £400 & I can have my refund paid directly into my bank.....
I sent the 1st 2 on to the phishing dept of the tax office & they say they'll investigate.
What makes me laugh is the emails I get titled "Someone has sent you a free palm reading"... whose palm?? dont they think I'd know they'd done it if it was mine?????
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@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
24 Mar 11
Many of those e-mails are easy to spot since they may have an e-mail address in the "To" spot or they may have your e-mail address along with many others. Also the "From" e-mail address may be strange. Any valid -mal trying to verify your data should tell you to go to the website of the sender, but without having a link embedded in he e-mail.
@vengala (92)
• India
22 Mar 11
Hi friend thank you for your information to others.still now iam not received that type of mail to may mail box if anything coming i will ignore to all.basically iam not open to all spam messages..anyway thank you for information.....cheersssssss
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
25 Mar 11
No worries. I hope this can make you more aware of the fact that some messages appear to be legitimate but are not. 
