Phishing attempt?

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[–]Godzillace 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

this is a very odd attempt. Go directly to gmail.com and change your password to be safe.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

It's a old and unused email of mine, but that's not how Google usually contacts me, using an android phone they'll send popups right on the system.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

but that's not how Google usually contacts me

You're in regular contact with google? You're a brave man.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don't have a choice they'll send notifications right through the operating system on my phone.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You can turn off all the google services in Application manager. Gmail, Google accounts manager, Google app, Google backup transport, Google play services, google play store, and about 10 others. I have them all Disabled and all the features of my Galaxy S5 works just fine. Of course if you regularly use any Google service you are locked in

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The S9 is just $250 now and way faster than the s5. It has comparable specs to the Google Pixel 5 that I'm using now. My wife was using an s4 and she'd always say it does what she needs and she was happy with it but then she upgraded, and that changed her tune.

Thanks though, I'll do what you suggested.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The S6 I think was the first one to come out with a non removable battery so stopped at the 5. See how you go, you may have trouble locking them down on a late model phone.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hate non removeable batteries so much. And also when they don't let you use a sim card. My pixel 5 can't take a sd card, there's a lot of important pics on my sd card, like photos of relatives no longer with us.

You can replace the battery tho, it's just not as simple. There's yt vids on it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My old phone runs HD movies well, the camera is good, especially the HDR, that's better than on my micro43 camera go figure. I just didn't see any real advantage in upgrading all the way to an 8 at the time, think it was an 8? Anyway I even have a couple of old S3's in a box which are fine in a pinch. I suppose if you are are a twitter addict or a faceplanter then I don't know, you may need newer phones? It wouldn't surprise me if these big corps were in a collusion with the phone manufacturers to force people to upgrade. Like microsoft has always done, making their operating systems so huge and boggy that you had to upgrade to a new computer if you wanted to employ the new OS.

I have a spare battery here as well and can change it in 15 seconds. Also the microSD card being absent from your latest phone is odd? I couldn't have that! I like control of my own space and that racket Apple runs by having three identical phones with different size memory is the biggest scam I have ever heard of. Apple is a curse IMO. A total fraud. I wonder if Samsung is emulating some of their worst habits...

[–]johnnybravo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Perhaps they thought your entire google account is hijacked. I don't think this is a phishing attempt, if it were they'd have sent you a fake link to "reset/change" your password where they'd fish out the password out of you. This might not be genuine looking at the language, but just change your password just in case. If it gets misused you might get in trouble.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The blue text in the message is a link. Due to the vagaries of that app I can't see the url w/o going there. I just got a new android phone, it copied all my gmail addys and didnt say anything about a pwd problem.

[–]johnnybravo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

copied all my gmail addys and didnt say anything about a pwd problem.

That's definitely a fraudulent message, because google goes full ballistic whenever it sees suspicious sign ins (it got me into trouble more than once)

The blue text? You mean the email address? (Because that's the only blue text I can see) Your messaging app automatically makes it a hyperlink so you can send an email to that address real quick. If you send the same message to a dumb phone I bet the blue text will just become regular text. Reason = SMS messages do not support formatting.