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With these kind of suspicious emails, the key is to check the From and/or the Reply To addresses. How you do that depends on which email program you are using.
Bonafide emails from Google will always be from the google.com or gmail.com domains. Fake emails may include the words google or gmail in the address, but the domain will be different. Often, as capetonian posted above, the link in the email is to a completely different domain.