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Re:Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and...
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:35PM (#45266061)
It doesnt seem to be a red-flag. The caller was calling as an Attorney from Google General Counsel responding to an estate request. They followed up with a spoofed @google.com email with their name corroborating the call.
Re:Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and...
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:55PM (#45265538)
I use gmail and i was attacked almost identically and the email came thru to my gmail with a @google origin account
Re:Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and...
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:53PM (#45265511)
It was not legit from legal, I had the same attack on me two weeks ago. They were pretending to be from Google General Counsel responding to an estate request to my Google account being handed to another party who was supposedly the inheritor.
What clued me in was that he said he couldnt share the estate documents with me until I gave him my popup 2FA code.
Re:Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and...
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:41PM (#45265345)
Same exact scam happened to me three weeks ago and I almost fell for it. The guy was very sharp and sounded very authentic.
Ever since then I've been getting hundreds or thousands of Google notifications I've had to decline. Anyone know how people are able to send out hundreds of 2FA gmail notification popups without Google blocking this?