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Phishing Google Email - Important Upgrade Notice

If you have received the phishing Google email message below, please do not click on the link in it. This phishing email was created by scammers to steal your Google user name and password.

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The Phishing Google Email message

Please upgrade your account

To get the most out of Google, we recommend that you upgrade your account.Upgrading should only take a few minutes.

upgrade your current version of Google Products http://sabbatdesade.com/wp-content/mail.google.com.htm

If you don’t want to upgrade right now you can still continue, but some parts of it may not work and it may not be displayed properly.

Sincerely,

The Google Accounts Team

Note: You are advised not to change your password at this time to prevent ambiguity that can lead to account suspension

© 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

The link in the email message above, will not take you to www.google.com, instead, you will be taken to the website www.sabbatdesade.com, which appears to have been hacked and the malicious phishing web page "wp-content/mail.google.com.htm" placed on it.

The link and the content may change, so watch out for email notifications like this one. To make or view changes in your Google account, always go to the following link:
https://www.google.com/settings/account

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