This appears to be a legitimate email from google regarding an attempt to use my password to log into google. Sent to an old AOL account i keep for trash. They used the first half of my AOL address with an @googlemail.com, which is close to a googlemail address i actually have and asks me to log in to verify the activity.

Im not sure how they intend to access my gmail accounts as this is a legitimate email from google and would direct me to the google accounts page so they would not have visibility of my passwords i use to try to log in.

Im not sure what this is.

Why would they use my AOL email address as a recovery account for a fake gmail account i dont have access to? How to they intend to get my log in details this way?

Any thoughts anyone?

Ps hope this is the roght place for this question.

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    6 months ago

    Firefox knows the difference though, it won’t pull your passwords or login cookies. But yeah, it’s very easy to fall for phishing attempts, I just never click on anything sent in a mail to be safe.