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???
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.
google currents sounds like some sort of phenomenon, like an ocean current that pushes stuff onto the shore where we discover it.
Google Currents
They probably just renamed it to Google Raisins.
So many things have died. GOOGLE KILLS.
Goodbye Chromecast!
Hello, thing that’s totally not Chromecast.
At least the protocol is still alive.
last remnant of google+ apparently
They know my name, yet they wrote “Dear Google Workspace Administator” as the most generic phishing attempts.
Were you expecting a Google employee to notice the issue, think “Uh oh, I better let Moonrise know about this!” and type out an email for you?
Email templates are ubiquitous and can easily insert names and any other variable.
Do you know that’s trivial to write a marketing email like
“Dear <name placeholder>…”
I get that Google is just a startup with limited resources and can’t afford expensive marketing tools, but this is a basic feature offered in every marketing email software, even free ones.
The reason is that a phishing scammer usually just got a leaked/stolen email list without names, and by stating “dear <name>” they show that it’s not a phishing.
Once you train users that generic emails with “click here to read the message” are legit, then phishers have an easier life.
In this specific case they’re just announcing that a Google service that nobody was using has been killed (as is tradition) and they’re going to delete the data, there’s no reason at all to have a “click here to read”.
A good rule of thumb is to never click on links in emails. Always go to the domain manually.
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.
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.
Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.
we have not been delivering what customers expected, in fact, we were delivering the exact OPPOSITE. now is time for that to change.
It is better than the vendors/contractors who send emails with misspellings and attached documents
I debated signing in multiple times myself, finally got it validated for a feature that was never enabled. Fuck off Google
