A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it"s done, as things looked quite official on the surface. As you may know, phishing emails are sent out by abusers to make the recipient in some way reply with their password or click through to enter their password, but the more official looking they are, the more easily they"re believed. This particular mail, shown in the screenshot, had the following attributes:
It was sent by "customer care". OK, could be a lie.
It got my name right... might be just luck, as my name is included in my mail address.
I ...
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