Email Fraud Alert received from: Sergey
I recently received an email with this subject line: You have Four Pending incoming mails!!! and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Gmail User,
We have placed your four incoming mails on pending status because of the new update to our server. This will make email experience more enjoying for our customers.
To receive all pending mails, please Click here to login and wait for response from our email support team in order to receive the pending new messages.
We apologize for any inconveniences this might have caused.
Gmail.com Support Team
The above email was sent by “Gmail.com Support ( help.department@gmail.com )” from this email address: kwang4@buffalo.edu
I, Sergey, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Gmail.com Support ( help.department@gmail.com )”:
I don’t see how they think that they will fool a Gmail user with this one but maybe a warning will help someone else.