Phishing attempt?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 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.

[–]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.