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Gmail scam ?

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Old 8th Apr 2011, 20:33
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Gmail scam ?

I presume we are all consigning these constant requests to the Spam Box ?

Google Mail Team. ✆
show details 10:35 (21 hours ago)

Account Id :

Password :

Territory/Country :

Please Confirm your being the owner of this email and let us know if you want to continue using this our service . We are having numerous complains of customers loosing access to their accounts recently.Therefore we will be upgrading our Security.

We pleade to all customers to abide with us and bear with us.
Thanks for using Gmail.

Google Inc.
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I fill them in with false details to waste the scammers' time and to make the Gmail company investigate the IP address ranges from whic htey most commonly originate.
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