"Gmail Critical Security Alert for Your Account" Scam

Gmail users, if you have received the "Critical Security Alert for Your Account" email below, which claims a sign-in attempt was blocked for your account, please do not follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a phishing scam being sent by cybercriminals to steal their potential victims' Gmail account credentials (usernames and passwords).

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The "Gmail Critical Security Alert for Your Account" Scam

From: Administration <derogatesmqx575@hallenobjekte.com>
Date: April 1, 2018 at 6:08:15 AM PDT
Subject: Critical security alert for your account
Your account is listed as the recovery email for. Don't recognize this profile? click here.
Sign-in attempt was blocked for your linked account
Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your profile.
CHECK ACTIVITY
You received this email to let you know about important changes to your profile and services.
© 2018 gmail.com., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

Gmail users should never click on a link to sign into their accounts, they should instead, go directly to https://myactivity.google.com/ to check their account activity log.

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Apr 5, 2019 at 1:48 PM by an anonymous user from: New York, United States

my wife received a phone from Google security team. she asked to contact them at [408]657-3584. the call was received today 4/5 at 1300 hours regarding suspicious activity on my google account

Apr 5, 2019 at 3:27 PM by info

It is a scam, Google doesn't call you regarding suspicious activity on your account.

Apr 3, 2019 at 12:01 PM by an anonymous user from: Portland, Oregon, United States

I received such a critical security alert ...
I followed the instructions and as a consequence now have a "recovery email" linked account, which receives all sorts of junk mail.
How can I get back to the way it was before without the "recovery email" linked account.
In other words, how can I unlink the "recovery email" address?
Hoping to get things normalized,
Reiner

Apr 3, 2019 at 12:24 PM by info

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Gmail app.
In the top-left, touch the Menu Menu.
Scroll down and tap Settings.
Tap the Gmail account you’d like to unlink.
Tap Unlink in category Linked Account.

You will then ask you if you’d like to keep all the emails that we imported into your Gmail mailbox from your other account.
If you remove them from Gmail, they’ll still be in the inbox of your other provider (for example, Outlook or Yahoo! Mail).
If you keep them in Gmail, they’ll stay in your Gmail account. However, if you move or delete them in Gmail, these actions won’t be reflected in your other account.
After you unlink your accounts, Gmail will stop showing you new messages from your other account.

Apr 3, 2019 at 1:11 PM by an anonymous user from: Portland, Oregon, United States

what you are suggesting doesn't seem to work for me - I have a desktop computer, and I am using Thunderbird as an email client.

Mar 20, 2019 at 9:56 AM by an anonymous user from: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

I have received a very realistic looking email headed 'Critical Security Alert' purporting to be from Google (no-reply-accounts.google.com).

However the email address it uses for me is not the user name for my Google account.

There is a button for signing in, asking me for password.

Am I right to be suspicious?

"Gmail Critical Security Alert for Your Account" Scam

The "Gmail Critical Security Alert for Your Account" Scam

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