Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

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Lots of good advice already, so I won't waste bandwidth repeating it
all, but I will add an item to Joanne's comment about things a reputable
company wouldn't do:

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:25 -0700, jdow wrote:
> But, the primary
> good thing to learn is that the likelihood of ANY reputable company
> asking for information this way is so close to zero it's safe to discard
> the message.

The likelihood of any reputable company (at least one from an English
speaking country, and Google is a U.S. company) sending out anything
with such atrocious spelling/grammar/capitalization/punctuation/sentence
structure/formatting is also extremely low. If it reads like it was
written by someone from Nigeria - it probably was!

This one is actually quite a bit better than most, but it's still quite
obvious. Any communications from Google would be a lot more professional
than what you received - they would never have let *that* get out the
door!

Brian


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