[Hidden-tech] gmail "quirks"

[Gyepi SAM]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:31:57AM -0500, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote:
>    1) I've been receiving "tom.adams at gmail.com"'s email sporadically
>    over the last 4 years or so. I've actually emailed him before to see
>    what's going on & looked into gmail's help but they basically say

Gmail does not recognize dots within usernames, so emails to 'tom.adams at gmail.com'
will go to the account 'tomadams at gmail.com', which explains why you're getting
his emails.
See this page for details: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313

I would guess that his real address is not 'tom.adams at gmail.com' but
something quite similar and easy to mistype.

As others have mentioned, the email from desk at gmail.com is phishing spam.
Aside from the fact that no real admin would ever ask you for
that information and that you can see the true source of the message
in the email headers, you can also look at the link they want you to click
and see that it doesn't go anywhere near the site they want you to think
it's going to. Really good phishers go to some trouble to camouflage the
domain, but you can still tell. BTW, some email readers make this easier than others.


-Gyepi