I just took a look at my filtered-as-spam mail in my Gmail account, and saw a fake email claiming to be from eBay.

I opened it just to take a look and was greeted by a nice, big, red banner, added by Gmail, telling me that the message didn't actually come from eBay.

Take a look:


It also disabled the links in the email, that would have taken you to the information logging site.

What do you all think?

To me it seems a lot better that Microsoft's effort in Hotmail.

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Originally posted by mwe99
E-bay never ask you to confirm accounts although the email looks like ebays

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seen that a few weeks ago, dunno how old it is though

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Originally posted by monster.rat

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Originally posted by mwe99
E-bay never ask you to confirm accounts although the email looks like ebays

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Well they obviously will try to make look as genuine as possible to trick as many people as they can.

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Originally posted by monster.rat
I use gmail and have never seen that message before, but it's good to know that just in case something like that happens to my account, gmail's system looks good and safe.

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erm it does point out that it's not a real ebay email in hotmail too... i've had the same for my hotmail account... ok so it's not in red... but it still has the same banner thing above messages like this

yeah this has been there for several months i dont know how long exactly because they never announced for some reason. it is kinda useful good to know its there i guess.

this is really cool, but i havnt seen it before!?

I think I'll stick with hotmail ... and if nothing else... my school has email there too... and they don't seem to want to delete people out of the database after they've graduated or moved or anything... They have some people that haven't been in school for like 3 years so I think I'm safe using that one for a long time yet.

Same happnened here, but for paypal!

I liked it, I really thought that the paypal thing was true, then I saw it blocking it.

i saw that quite a while back for some dodgy spam email   its quite handy

i also saw that but it was a paypal account.. i dont even have one.. lmao

I sent one back saying: "AHAAh bitch, you know what? I dont even have a paypal account stupid phisher"

when i get my mail from the guys at microsoft it has this message

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Originally posted by paperless
I sent one back saying: "AHAAh bitch, you know what? I dont even have a paypal account stupid phisher"

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this is better than the hotmail one because its more easy to see, the hotmail one isnt all that visible at first glance tbh.
you know paperless, sending one back isnt a good idea. it will just bounce of their server making the whole thing pointless and so increases spam email traffic or they might actually have a script that scans all the replies and then finds all the email address in it, that way they are sure they there is someone at the other end reading them, so you will probably get more.

This is good to know because I probably would have fallen for the fraud email

I almost fell for one before.  I recommend sending off to the appropriate company and letting them know about it.  They can lookup the fake domain and take it from there.

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Originally posted by qgroessl
I think I'll stick with hotmail ... and if nothing else... my school has email there too... and they don't seem to want to delete people out of the database after they've graduated or moved or anything... They have some people that haven't been in school for like 3 years so I think I'm safe using that one for a long time yet.

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Gmail is New, Hotmail is anicent. Give Microsoft a break.

lol, not too much of the hate Kingforaday Well in 6th form we all have our own laptops so technically nothing should be blocked. If it is, I'll probably use a proxy or something... And gmail is better than hotmail anyway. The whole hotmail page looks bloated and there are large adverts and links to laods of microsoft crap. I much prefer gmail, especially when it says hooray! no spam here!