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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?????????????????

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 154 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago

google currents sounds like some sort of phenomenon, like an ocean current that pushes stuff onto the shore where we discover it.

[-] rxin 5 points 1 month ago

Google Currents is the Google strategy of "The Less Products I Have The Better"

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago

Google Currents

They probably just renamed it to Google Raisins.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

So many things have died. GOOGLE KILLS.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Goodbye Chromecast!

Hello, thing that's totally not Chromecast.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

At least the protocol is still alive.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 107 points 1 month ago

They know my name, yet they wrote "Dear Google Workspace Administator" as the most generic phishing attempts.

[-] Hector_McG@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

I doubt more than 6 people at Google knew what it was.

[-] rxin 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah actually, any non-spam email should always address you by name and that's a rule. Many services also have this in their e-mail footers "This e-mail is for XXXXX" etc. because a typical mass sent garbage mail won't know your name.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

When I worked the email marketing opt out queue I relied heavily on the "this email was sent to [email address]" because 9/10 reports that the opt out didn't work, they had setup forwarding from one email address to another

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago

Email templates are ubiquitous and can easily insert names and any other variable.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Do you know that's trivial to write a marketing email like

"Dear ..."

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 " 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".

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 month ago

A good rule of thumb is to never click on links in emails. Always go to the domain manually.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

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.

Canada Revenue Agency notice

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Public services here do that too. But they then use a known local service for that.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.

[-] chrisbit@leminal.space 9 points 1 month ago

Had the same reaction to this email today!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It is better than the vendors/contractors who send emails with misspellings and attached documents

[-] thirteene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I debated signing in multiple times myself, finally got it validated for a feature that was never enabled. Fuck off Google

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