Hmm, this looks serious. 

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/16/2019 at 14:03 • Filed to: None

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It’s a Final Notice.

In case you can’t read it, it says:

You submitted a request to terminate your Gmail mail account and the process has started by our Gmail™ Team, Please give us 3 working days to close your mail account.

To cancel the termination request reply to this mail.

All files on your Gmail mail including (Inbox, Sent, Spam, Trash, Draft) will be deleted and access to your Gmail™ mail account will be Denied.

If you wish to Terminate your Email Address, you can Sign Up for a new Gmail™ account.

For further help please contact by replying to this mail.

Regards,

Gmail™ Account Services

Not really sure who I should reply to. Google Security, maybe? Interestingly, the actual return address is “Final Notice” and that address expands to:

bmzcx@yckfyzdmst.imdb.com

I’m tempted to reply to them just to see what they want from me to keep my email active.

Also. ™™™™™™™

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:11

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LastFirstMI is my name > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:15

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“TM” means “ we aren’t scared of you, but the Google lawyers will find us and murder us in our sleep.”

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:17

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Cancel ALL the googles!!!

Tristan > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:26

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Oh, boy... Better reply to them with your password! Include you SSN and at least 3 credit card numbers just to be safe.

Future next gen S2000 owner > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:26

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I wouldn’t reply. Then again, I’m weirded out by hidden links and them getting in through a reply. Maybe sending them an email asking for a bank account to send money to ma ke it not get terminated?

vicali > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:27

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ttyymmnn > Tristan 01/16/2019 at 14:27

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I was going to send them a picture of my driver license too, just to be safe.

user314 > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:28

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$1500,00 in Google Play cards and your firstborn. 

Tristan > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:41

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Front and back, plz.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 14:56

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A scammer has recently been the beneficiary of a partial security failure at somewhere I did business, and is claiming that my email and password at that site (i.e. all that they have) are evidence they have breached all muh internets. Specifically, alleging that that’s my login at a paid porn site they neglect to specify (ha, no) and that due to my patronage at said porn site they were able to haxor my boxor and captured webcam footage (further ha) of me in flagrante. The blackmail demand is a mere $900+ in bitcoin.

Needless to say , not bothered of a guilty conscience nor overawed by grand claims of expertise only vaguely grounded in the possible, I have not remitted.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/16/2019 at 14:57

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I got an email the other day saying that I need to complete my registration at Porn Hub. Nope. As far as cameras go, I put tape over the camera on my desktop machine. Not that I have anything to hide (no, really), but it just removes one more avenue for those bastards.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 15:06

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My only actual semi-active computer is a Vista laptop so mired in age that I barely ever use it. I use a (very public) desktop at the house shared with some other people, and a desktop at work, neither of which would serve as an avenue for porn nor features a webcam. My old desktop from college was mothballed years ago, and my home 3d CAD workstation isn’t complete. Which would leave only the selfie-cam mode on my phone to have been somehow hacked, because surely I browse porn videos on my phone, and an image of a face ten inches from the screen would be prurient enough to use... after paying for porn (spoiler: no, no, and also no).

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 15:08

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In my inbox this morning:

Dear Account User,

IT Security Notice January 16, 2019

We have identified data security issues concerning certain accounts and has taken steps to secure user accounts. To help secure your email account and as well increase storage limit. Please enter VIEW HERE to take the survey and verify your account or your email address will be temporary blocked from sending or receiving emails. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Warm Regards,

IT-Service Help Desk

I know it’s not real because no one in our IT department has warm regards for anybody.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 01/16/2019 at 15:13

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I know it’s not real because no one in our IT department has warm regards for anybody.

LOL. The English-as-a-third-or-fourth-language is a dead giveaway too. I got a call years ago by a man with a very thick Arabic accent claiming to be “ Detective John Marshall.” He told me all the terrible things that would happen to me if I didn’t call him back, and he closed by saying, “And may God have mercy on your soul.”

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 15:20

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On that topic, this was also in my inbox. It’s totally legitimate, but I can’t take seriously anyone who sends out out a business email in poor English. Plus, I don’t want my mind blown up.

Dear Researcher,

I know you are quite busy with your schedule right now and I am really sorry to disturb you at your most auspicious time. But if you give a little of your time to read this mail, than what I know is that this mail might Blow up your mind.

Recently we have been surveying on various factors related to academic & research society at National and International levels. And what we found is that you have been contributing a lot of your time at your academic and research career which could not let us to stop you for an invitation.

I Mohammed MasudHussain,CEO of ‘Scholars Academic and Scientific Publisher’ in the honour of our team, heartily invites you to publish your most valuable research paper in our journal Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences. Our journal charges a very nominal fee for publication. And, as a journal team we always respect to everyone’s contribution and give value to good & best papers.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 01/16/2019 at 15:38

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Yeah, but that sort of English doesn’t sound wrong, it just sounds like what they would have said in their native tongue to sound solicitous.

You gonna publish? Or you gonna blow up your head?

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 16:05

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I get emails like these all the time.  The journals aren’t exactly fake.  They are real and do publish.  It’s just that they are money making concerns with no real academic integrity and highly questionable peer review.  Also, no one will read them, so why bother?

The Compromiser > ttyymmnn 01/16/2019 at 20:44

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I know English as a first language IT people who would ask why the language is suspect. Or “are Suspect”

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 01/17/2019 at 00:28

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Text me your social security number and I’ll have my agent fax you a cheque.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 01/17/2019 at 00:33

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Now they use robocallers.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 01/17/2019 at 17:17

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bmzcx@yckfyzdmst.imdb.com

Why is the Internet Movie Database trying to scam you?

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 01/17/2019 at 18:20

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I wondered the same.