Fake or Real

Author: Madhur Kapoor
Fake, Google

15 Sep

Today i received an email from Gmail administrator . The email arrived from the address “[email protected]” .The contents of the email were

Dear Gmail Member,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure, we have detected a slight error in your information.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).

2. Submitting invalid information during the initial sign up process.

3. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.

Please update and verify your information by clicking the link below:

http://googleaccountverify.110mb.com/verifymyaccount/

If your account information is not updated within 72 hours then your ability to use your Gmail account will become restricted.

Sincerely,

Google Mail Administrator

Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you have general questions regarding your account, please click Help in the upper right corner for the GMail comprehensive online help.

© 2007 Google Mail Corporation. All rights reserved

Now when i clicked on the link given in the email , a page similar to gmail.com appeared and asked for my email and password . The page is shown below .

I think the page appears to be fake as the link contains 110mb.com and you can also see an advertisment below . So what do you guys think , real or fake ?

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23 Responses for "Fake or Real"

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan September 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am 1
Just but phishing. Safely delete that email message and **DO NOT** enter your Google Account password there.

I have a few posts on Phishing and protecting us from it over here:

1) http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2007/01/fighting-phishing-with-microsoft-tools.html
2) http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2007/01/spoofstick-to-keep-off-phishing.html

Deepak Vasudevan
Sriram September 15th, 2007 at 11:33 am 2
100% fake, if you have entered your password, surely the accounts is not yours.

The form POST happens on
http://googleaccountverify.googleservices.zampworld.com/gmail/index.php
this page, either it will store them into a file or will be emailed to that person directly.

so never try entering the username password.

Regards
Sriram j. Iyer.
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Shankar Ganesh September 15th, 2007 at 11:49 am 3
Definitely fake
Binny V A September 15th, 2007 at 12:09 pm 4
Email address is easy to spoof. Judge an email with the URL. That URL is a fake - no doubt about it.

It is possible to fake an URL - this is called pharming. It very hard - and very rare.
Ashwin September 15th, 2007 at 12:24 pm 5
Fake for sure.

The other details were taken care of Sriram. See the favicon. “G” is not there. Plus the advertisement in the bottom of the screen seals the fact it’s fake.
Nirmal September 15th, 2007 at 12:56 pm 6
Definitely fake! Recently I too got a similar one from Ebay asking me for credit card information.
bhoga September 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm 7
100% fake. These people try to steal passwords.

However the webhost has removed the web page now.
Haris September 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm 8
Definitely fake! Don’t bother reading such emails.
Rohit September 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pm 9
What a sad attempt to steal your password. *sigh*
A good reminder that we all have to be very careful about our passwords.
Madhur Kapoor September 15th, 2007 at 5:18 pm 10
Luckily i didnt enter my password . It looked so original though . Most of the people are receiving this mail .
Rhys September 15th, 2007 at 5:44 pm 11
Definitely fake. My advice to you would be that if Gmail/Paypal/whatever ask you to enter information, go to Firefox/IE and type it in the address bar, rather than clicking on any links, that way you know you’re going to the right place :).
rahul September 15th, 2007 at 6:14 pm 12
I too among lucky to receive this mail ,poor fellow want my gmail details & sent mail on my yahoo id
Guru September 15th, 2007 at 7:06 pm 13
I too got this mail today.. wonder where these people get email address from.. Thank god I am using firefox and it said as sooon as i clicked the link .. Its fake ink and it wants to steal valid info dont enter anything here Hats off to FireFox!!
Shashank September 15th, 2007 at 7:22 pm 14
its a 110mb link and you are asking its real or fake lol
once i also recieved a mail which said i ve won 1 million dollars something
ram September 15th, 2007 at 7:33 pm 15
r u kidding, the link says its 110MB. LOL
binay September 15th, 2007 at 7:39 pm 16
even i got this mail today and as most of us has mentions its absolutely fake.and we must remember and remind to all that any one who ask for your password shouldnt be given at any condition.
The Olympic Blogger September 16th, 2007 at 4:38 am 17
Had the same thing happen to me… I didn’t click on the link… I instead contacted the real Google support…

The Olympic Blogger
jhay September 16th, 2007 at 9:03 am 18
The fact that it contained a link to page on 110mb site proves that it’s 101% fake.

Spammers are really among the most creative kind.
~~Shwetz~~ September 16th, 2007 at 12:47 pm 19
fake
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chuck norris dude September 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm 21
That’s an old idea used on a new ground. Always be on guard with mails like that.
Logesh September 19th, 2007 at 3:58 pm 22
Its really fake. See, now that page has been deleted by the 110MB. So we must be very careful while getting such mails.
Vijay September 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 am 23
Thats fake and its so obvious to any sensible net user! How stupid do those phishers think we are anyway!