Okay gmail users - bit of a phishing alert.

I got an email offering unlimited invitations


Gmail Team
to me
More options 3:11am (7 hours ago)
Dear Beta Tester,


We are glad to bring you some new features to enhance your beta testing experience here at Gmail. Some of these features include:

� Checking your e-mail via telephone, anywhere in the world.

� A simple, easy to use spam manager where you can filter almost any kind of unwanted e-mail.

� Ability to create unlimited invite codes for all of your friends, so that they may too experience the wide range of diversity of Gmail.



We are proud to announce that all of these features are now available to current beta testers. Unfortunately, we will not be offering these services to members that receive an invitation from this special service. You can activate these features anytime by visiting http://activate.gmail.com/

We encourage you to send your feedback, suggestions and questions to us. But mostly, we hope you'll enjoy experimenting with Google's approach to email.

Speedy Delivery,

The Gmail Team


Unfotunately, this is just a phishing exercise to steal gmail accounts.

Did I fall for it?

Umm, yes - the lure of unlimited accounts was just too much.

It did lock out my account, but a quick secret question and I was back in, and changing the password.

I'd assume it's an automated password change, every time I log in now I need to type a .gif word from the screen, since the hackers are obviously auto-logging in and locking the account (kinda).

Altogether, pretty neat code, email is in good english, web page looks good. Good phish by offering the gold plated invitations to us greedy webbers.

If you see my account on ebay, it wasn't me!