According to security researchers, one fresh phishing e-mail posing as a message from Google Mail to its users is presently circulating online, thus published Tech2.in.com dated December 9, 2011.
The fake e-mail captioned "Google Account Storage Quota Exhausted on ******@gmail.com," may at a glance appear authentic. The sender's id, which shows
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, has alphabets depicted differently that initially can't be detected since the name displays 'Accounts Support,' while within brackets lies the original e-mail. Moreover, similar to a typical e-mail, this particular message lands inside the victim's Gmail account.
Additionally, citing Google's mail record, the phishing electronic mail tells the recipient that there isn't enough storage space with ****@gmail.com, therefore, since Google Inc. aims at providing quality service, it suggests users to adopt an upgrade. But for that, they require clicking a given web-link that'll help upgrade the storage space of their Google accounts as also not cause them any difficulty in exchanging e-mails while facilitating them in utilizing other Google features too via ****@gmail.com, the e-mail concludes.
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