Gmail Phishing Attack

Lately my Gmail account has been under attack by Phishing emails and even emails sent to me from a website that I had unsubscribed from. The first email I tried to post a Picture but the size was 6.8 MB and thelimit is 5 MB so I will just post what the email states.

Hey Dear Customer Alert: We are sorry to notify you that your gmail.com account is about to be removed from our database due to inactivity, your account is still active? Your feedback always matters. Anyway it goes on to tell me to reply to this message stating that they are the Gmail team.

So I used a tool that is on the web IP Lookup and here are the result's, Results for IP 212.83.51.126

Hostname

N/A

IP

212.83.51.126

Domain

N/A

Organization

Serverhousing - Hosting - IT-Services

Location

Germany

The other message which I tracked back to India was a email from a website that I unsubscribed from and when I hit reply it automatically populated the email with 3 Viruses that would have infected my windows PC,fortunately I use Linux so I doubt the viruses would have worked but I deleted the email and then deleted it from the deleted folder.

Once again Virus protection can only do so much, it comes down to YOU the user to be diligent and protect your self. To find this type ofinformation just reply to the email and on the top right of the email is a drop down arrow and you select show original message and it will give you all the info you need to track down this scum bag.

Also always look at who is sending the message, that will tell you right off that it is a phishing email and hopefully Gmail will send this message to your spam folder. But you have to check your spam folder because Gmail is not perfect and emails that you really need can and will end up in your spam folder, so when you get those great job offers just follow the steps above and you can find out where the email originated from.

I will try and be more consistent with daily emails to try and keep you safe on the internet, remember the internet was designed to share information and we have not even talked about social media.

Thanks and have a Blessed Day!

Steven Fowler