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The "Google Your Account Activity is Unusual" Phishing Scam

The Google Your Account Activity is Unusual Phishing Scam

Google users, if you have received the "Your Account Activity is Unusual" email below, which claims someone signed into the recipients' Google account from a new device, 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' Google account credentials (usernames and passwords).

The "Google Your Account Activity is Unusual" Scam

From: Account <hihg@a1.elnassr.com>

Date: September 19, 2018 at 2:59:31 PM PDT

Subject: your account activity is unusual!

Reply-To: fta@followlink.pw

Reply-To: fta@truemarket.pw

Reply-To: fta@skizo.pw>

Reply-To: fta@dyablo.xyz

Reply-To: system@whitemail.pw

Reply-To: system@dyablo.xyz

Reply-To: system@skizo.pw

Connecting to a new device

A user has just signed in to your Google Account from a new device. We are sending you this email to verify that it is you.

Loaction :Russia Moscow

Yes me !

not me !

Vous avez reçu cet e-mail pour vous informer de modifications importantes apportées à votre compte et aux services G00gle que vous utilisez.

Google 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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Oct 4, 2018 at 11:46 AM by
The "Google Your Account Activity is Unusual" Phishing Scam
info

Here is another scam:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Support
Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:53 AM
Subject: your account activity is unusual!

Google

Connecting to a new device

A user has just signed in to your Google Account from a new device. We are sending you this email to verify that it is you.

Location :Brussels Belgium

Yes me ! not me !

Delete

waiting

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