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Google sends emails that 100% look like phishing (feddit.it)
submitted 3 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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No, it's not phishing, it's legit, the header match with google and the link goes to https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser/signinchooser?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fadmin.google.com%2Fac%2Fac%2Falert%2Fdetails%3FalertId%3D3...

Why not just write the message there instead of letting me login to watch the important notification?????????????????

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 164 points 3 months ago

The content of this "important notification" is that to remind me that on January 18, 2025, they will delete the data of Google Currents, because they killed it. I even didn't know what that product was.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 months ago

google currents sounds like some sort of phenomenon, like an ocean current that pushes stuff onto the shore where we discover it.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 3 months ago

Google Currents

They probably just renamed it to Google Raisins.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

So many things have died. GOOGLE KILLS.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Goodbye Chromecast!

Hello, thing that's totally not Chromecast.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

At least the protocol is still alive.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

last remnant of google+ apparently

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 115 points 3 months ago

They know my name, yet they wrote "Dear Google Workspace Administator" as the most generic phishing attempts.

[-] Hector_McG@programming.dev 17 points 3 months ago

I doubt more than 6 people at Google knew what it was.

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 3 months ago

It's also annoying that Microsoft sends links via sms using a really scratchy looking domain (aka.ms). Turns out they're legit

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 months ago

They got the .microsoft TLD a while back specifically for this purpose. Supposedly they want to migrate all their cloud services there, but I learned about that a year ago and I've only seen it in use once since (IIRC on Loop...)

And let's not forget about facebookmail.com, the official mail server for Facebook login notifications since 2004.

The tech is here, the risks are enormous, but the corpos don't care because they don't bear the costs of phishing attacks and governments are too impotent to enforce minimum standards of cybersecurity.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago

Their latest iteration of Teams runs on https://teams.cloud.microsoft.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Looks like that works but my bookmark is on https://teams.microsoft.com and there's no redirect whatsoever. Hopefully they'll get there in a few months' time.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

went to that link, "Oops, app failed to init!", considering that this is public-facing, that is a very bad error message
i write better error messages than fekking MICROSOFT

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

maybe it's supposed to be really rare, but i just visited the site
edit: turns out DARK READER broke it!!!

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 17 points 3 months ago

I had to make a police report yesterday, and they wanted me to upload evidence. The (text) message they sent was along the lines of: "A. Last name requests evidence from you. Click here to submit evidence. vp.au/evidence"

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago

dear sirs, please submit the evidences to do the needful, very thanks.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

vp[.]au seems to be sketchy, just blank + sketchy js running

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago

But there are so many dodgy similar looking ones that auto complete if you’re typing it.

I went to type in the aka.ms to find a bit locker recovery key. And didn’t realise it autocorrected to something like akam.ms and it was a super sketchy site about bit locker recovery. Luckily I realised straight away even MS wouldn’t host a website like the one I saw.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Link shorteners are the worst.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Only reason I knew that was akamai was their hosting for their previous ISO distro system, it does look phish af.

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 44 points 3 months ago

A good rule of thumb is to never click on links in emails. Always go to the domain manually.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

I can see why they would want that. They may consider email to be inherently less safe than their platform, so they don't send any sensitive information there.

Canada's government stuff also generally works that way, except without any links.

I'm not sure how legit their concerns are, but it's a thing.

Canada Revenue Agency notice

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

In fact a lot of things do:

  • My bank
  • All monthly work pay notifications
  • All tax notifications

It's just normal to not include the actual information. But like you say, except sometimes the bank, they don't include links.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Public services here do that too. But they then use a known local service for that.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

we have not been delivering what customers expected, in fact, we were delivering the exact OPPOSITE. now is time for that to change.

[-] chrisbit@leminal.space 9 points 3 months ago

Had the same reaction to this email today!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

It is better than the vendors/contractors who send emails with misspellings and attached documents

[-] thirteene@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I debated signing in multiple times myself, finally got it validated for a feature that was never enabled. Fuck off Google

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