Bogus email calling for particulars relating to email account
By ravisivan
@ravisivan (14079)
India
August 3, 2011 5:58am CST
I have received an email just now and am giving it below:
QUOTE BEGINS
Dear Valued Member,
****************************** ****************************** *******
This footnote indicates that this message is secure and is sent from the database.
****************************** ****************************** *******
In an effort to prevent your account from hijackers, we have decided to protect each account with a user account control to protect user privacy and make sure each user account is not accessed unauthorized since we have been detecting unusual activities on some user accounts. We are sending this general message to all users to confirm their details below for verification purposes:
************************
* Full Name * :
* Email ID * :
* Password * :
* Year of Birth * :
* Country * :
************************
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused but we are glad to let you know that your account security is our ultimate goal.
Thank you for using our email service.
QUOTE ends.
I gave the full email to inform the veracity of the contents to prove as if it is a genuine email.
SENDER IS GIVEN AS GMAIL.COM AND receipient is given as dataverifierservices.com
I can make out it is bogus and am only worried about a few people who may get deceived and submit details -- sometimes people do keep bank passwords inside email accounts. In that case full balance can be taken by the culprits.
I wish gmail team should identify the IP address, id and stop such things.
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18 responses
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
thanks amit. You are in touch with internet fully and hence are able to identify it easily.
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@pvtandersonbryce (37)
• United States
3 Aug 11
I hate those emails They are annoying. I get like 20 or so a day. even get some that say they are from the FBI but they are not. I really do not like people who do those kinds of things.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
You get 20 per day. thank God I get only one or two maximum. You get more because you are based in usa. more internet more activity more....
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
What is that paypal mail? I have not received it so far. let us be cautious.
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
•
3 Aug 11
These things are always so badly-written I refuse to believe they're from the company itself. And asking outright for a password as well as ID? Yeah, right. Like that's going to happen.
Still, you can rest assured that someone will answer it and complain when all their money goes missing. 
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
But these guys who may be operating in groups they change places, change their names and they will have measures to go scot free. I know it is difficult to monitor 24X7 internet world which has become much bigger than the real world. In real employment we work for a company. In internet companies we work for many companies in many forms for many works. interesting but complicated.
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@umabharti (3972)
• India
3 Aug 11
i frequently get email from Liberty reserve to login to my account ,i just give the login details and login to my account.
Recently it said i won 500 dollars and said to login using the details of my login codes,which i safely noted down,i made lr account some years back.regularly i login the account whenever it asks ,there is nothing in the account,i dont know why they ask all the time.
@umabharti (3972)
• India
4 Aug 11
what is the requirement to send us such fake things using big companies and banks which we trust.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
Uma: What is that liberty reserve. Have u recd the dollars u won. It is better not to handle that account.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
Spike: I feel that through such mails we only lose our sleep and we do not get anything.
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
3 Aug 11
This type of scam is rampant nowadays. Phishing e-mails like this are usually designed to compromise your account. Legitimate companies won't ask for any personal information, I think you can report this as an abuse on Gmail but knowledge is always your best security since your e-mail service provider is not responsible for your security if you answer one of these types of messages. Most of these scams are from nigeria and if you happen to answer one of these types of messages, I would suggest changing the password for all of your accounts if your e-mail is connected to them.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
yes. Luckily I did not reply and will not. I was surprised at the audacity with which called themselves gmail team and are sending this to a number of people. Why can't gmail find out or tell none should have their name like this.
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
24 Aug 11
Personally this is a ongoing problem and issue that more sites are continuing to have happen to them all the time. These are known as Pshishing scams and people need to realize these are FAKE and do not open the links or respond back with their information. It would be nice if there was a way we could report and block most of them as they can be quite bothersome at times for sure.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
24 Aug 11
KrauseHome: Yes I reported it as "phishing" to gmail authorities. But still such things will continue. When the fraudster attempts one thousand out of that one innocent fellow gets caught.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Unfortunately this has been going on for years. It's so sad that some people have to stoop this low to get personal information and use it for their own personal needs. I called PayPal and was told that any email beginning with: Dear Valued Member or anything of this nature is a scam. PayPal, for example, will address an email using your first and last name.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
yes. it is a useful info for me. paypal mail will address a person by first name and last name,. let others also note this. thanks
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Aug 11
hi ravisivan oh yes I have got three of the same email in the last year and each time I just deleted it as the first one I showed my son and he agreed that was bogus. so I deleted it and the other
two of course. they make it sound pretty reasonable until it gets to
asking for personal info then I knew it was bogus. I just hope nobody has been taken by this as its pretty well written with care to the grammar but its still bogus. Gmail admins. should be notified that someone is trying to scam us all and put a stop to this.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
Madam: Thanks for the response. I posted this to create an awareness. I am aware most of mylot members are well conversant with these. I did not act upon it.
@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
4 Aug 11
Just spam it. I get those same emails almost on a daily basis. Some times i get the ones that say they are going to sent me so many thousands of dollars. They want my phone address and full name. I reply them "oh cool cause im really broke and need it badly. Please send it via paypal you have my email thats all you need." Of coarse i never hear from them again. Which i knew they wouldnt.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
15 Aug 11
In fact, i had been getting this kind of emails almost every week. What i usually do is deleted them off directly. Because i don't trust any bank or even some reputable companies are asking for my personal details. Most of them will always mentioned that i had win some hard to believed prizes. Some emails even stated that they are suspending our account, so need our personal details for unblocking our account. What i usually do to those saying blocking our account is, i send a copy of these emails to their respective companies and waiting for reply. If no reply to justified that email copy, then i just ignored them.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
15 Aug 11
myfb: I think your option is the best one. Just delete them and forget about it. I reported as phishing. I understood that we are helping gmail also to know that some are using gmail as name of their id.
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
4 Aug 11
Yea you're correct, it's indeed a bogus email. No organizations, in this case, genuine organizations will just send emails to their customers asking for their personal and sensitive information. I've also received such emails lately and what I do is to just report it as junk. It's very important to read the email over and over again and most importantly, you have to verify the actual recipient and the layout of the email too.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
4 Aug 11
that is right. No organisation will call for email id and password of accounts in their own site. nice way of looking at it. thanks
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
15 Aug 11
This is sad Ravisivan and I think like you all the time. That sadly I can immediately sense it is fraud/scam but can't stop thinking of the many who immediately and freely give out personal information.
Sadly these types of emails are sent by professionals and or people who know the trade, where they send them from different ip's so not easy to catch up with them.
Awareness my friend is the key where we continually remind all to take a couple seconds to think things through before they issue out their personal information. Sometimes we, even though we know better can go way too fast and not think logically and get fooled some how.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
15 Aug 11
HWG: Yes This sort of activities are done by very intelligent and well educated people. Laymen cannot do such things. We should pray that we should be alert to see that we are not fooled. thanks
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
3 Aug 11
no company will ever email you asking you to give your details, if they email you, it should only be if you need to request a password reset, but you have to ask for that on the site yourself before they send you an email, they do not just email you out of nowhere asking you to reset your password or give personal info.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
Exactly. no email provider will ask for details is known now. We are not supposed to furnish that. good day.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
3 Aug 11
I got something similar yesterday only it was about accidental removal of some large amount of money from my credit card for a hotel stay. Firstly I don't even have near the amount of money that they claimed to have taken, I don't use nor have I ever owned a credit card and I haven't stayed at any hotel in many years.
I'm always tempted to give these people a snappy response, but I hear it may actually be dangerous to do such a thing. Their stupidity irks me greatly.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
something new. I have not come across an experience u are telling. I am happy u could make out their intentions quickly.
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@megamatt (14291)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Yeah those type of e-mails have been around for some time to say the very least. And there are a lot of people who would in fact give up their personal information rather easily and without any regret to say the very least. There are a lot of extremely gullible people out there and these people roll the dice and hope they got someone.
A long time ago, many websites have put in a disclaimer that no one would ask for personal details from their website. Sadly there are just really many people who will not read those little disclaimers. Then they get their account hijacked for any number of reasons. There is just any number of things that people do to deceive them. There are too many people falling for it as well.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
yes. the idea of posting discussion is some of us will discuss with our family members and they will stand guarded. perhaps i am expecting more.
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@Rick1950 (1575)
• Lima, Peru
3 Aug 11
I think this email want only info about you without good purposes. The best is to ignore these emails and delete them. It could be a good idea to contact gmail team and explain this case in order that they can take steps to correct this.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
yes yes. we should ignore such emails. I was only worried about the selected few who get deceived. I know mylot members will be more alert.
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@Flash2 (347)
• United States
3 Aug 11
It's good to know that there are things such as this going on and that people should be careful not to use those types of things for the wrong purposes. There are many unscupulous people in the world to take advantage of those less fortunate than themselves.
Thank you for this comments.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
3 Aug 11
yes. i posted this for informing members only. Many of them are aware. A few may not know and it may be of use for the selected few. Incidentally I saw u blog. It was having dollars, dollars and dollars all around. Nicely presented.
