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'Gmail' storage upgrade phishing mail steals user logins and passwords

A new phishing mail from ‘Gmail’ has popped up on the Internet asking users to upgrade their account storage ...

December 09, 2011 / 12:20 IST
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A new phishing mail from ‘Gmail’ has popped up on the Internet asking users to upgrade their account storage because their quota has been exhausted. A closer look will show that it’s actually a phishing e-mail and not a genuine one. We received this e-mail last night, and a quick glance at our Gmail storage did show that data storage was quite close to its limit. Also, the e-mail first arrived in our inbox and not in the spam folder. Here’s a closer look at what happened next.  Click here for full story

first published: Dec 9, 2011 12:10 pm

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