RE: Questionable Google Alerts

Run away, IMHO.

Enter your password, and somebody else will 0wn your account, almost certainly. (Now, if you happen to have a honeypot handy, you might have fun playing with them, but I’d not go there unless you really know what you’re doing!)

Have you looked at the full headers to see if its really coming from Google?


Rusty
From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 3:17 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Questionable Google Alerts

I keep getting alerts from Google along the lines of

Sign-in attempt was blocked
mark%phillipsoasis.com@gtempaccount.com

With a button to "Check Activity". The button takes me to a Google sign in page for mark%phillipsoasis.com@gtempaccounts.com<mailto:mark%25phillipsoasis.com@gtempaccounts.com> asking for my password. I don't use this address. I do own the domain phillipsoasis.com<http://phillipsoasis.com/> and have an email address mark@phillipsoasis.com<mailto:mark@phillipsoasis.com>

Is this a scam/spoof or something real?

Thanks!

Mark
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