Weird email - is this Google?

[Deleted]

The last couple of days I have seen an email in my spam box on att.net, supposedly from Google, that I have undelivered emails in my gmail account, click here, etc.  Gmail is my secondary email source and not a lot of folks have this address so I am thinking that this is spam/malware, etc. 

What say my good YM peeps?

Thanks!

[dannylion]

Have you logged in to your gmail account independently of that message to verify whether there are, in fact, undelivered messages?  That would be where I would start. 

[ArchietheDragon]

The answer to the question "is this email spam?" is always "Yes"

[toomuchreality]

Nov 18, 2014 21:39:54 GMT -5 dannylion said:

Have you logged in to your gmail account independently of that message to verify whether there are, in fact, undelivered messages?  That would be where I would start. 

good luck!

[Tiny]

I'd vote that it's spam without a second thought. It's clearly specious.

But, if you need reasons for it's specious-ness:

1.) "undelivered" email messages generally happen when YOU send an email that cannot be delivered. Generally the "your email provider cannot deliver the message"  message goes to the Inbox of the email provider you used to send the email - not to a 'back up' email address at another provider. Big tip off right there.

2.) did you give your att.net email as a back up address for your gmail account? Even then that's not enough to lend much credibility to the email.   More like you should just sign into gmail to mind your mind at rest. And do not use a link in an email to do that!

3.) att.net has some pretty darn good spam detector software running and those emails failed. Most email systems have pretty darn good spam detectors.  Odds are really good the emails are spam/phishing.  

If you are still feeling a bit like you should do something -- The easiest thing to do would be to go to Google and sign in to gmail and see what's there (don't use a link in an email).

[Deleted]

Sender is not google. Look at sender in email and you see someone else. Not gmail notice. I get lots of crazy email and text recently. I think this is from big data breaches. Who gave them my cell phone number? now I am so mad

[Tennesseer]

When in doubt, do not click on any link provided in an email. Instead, as in your case, go to your GMail account. If it is say from a bank, sign in directly to your bank accout to see what the email is talking about.