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What's up with GMail? I'm sure a lot of other GMail users have seen this. For the last couple of days, whenever I get an e-mail from someone with @gmail.com in their e-mail address, GMail displays the following warning:

Warning:  This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. Learn more

My guess is they've had some sort of security breech or someone's been spoofing gmail addresses. Any ideas? Posted in General at Oct 20 2004, 07:49:15 AM MDT 10 Comments

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Were those messages delivered via a mailing list? If so, Gmail is probably complaining that its DomainKeys headers have been stripped from the message.

Posted by Christopher Elkins on October 20, 2004 at 09:03 AM MDT #

I think it happens when you're sending an email to the mailing list and the account of the mailing list sends the message to one of the subscribers (?)

Posted by Lars Fischer on October 20, 2004 at 09:06 AM MDT #

I don't know why it happens. The funny thing is it's true even in this comment thread. Christopher - you didn't enter an e-mail address, so it comes from "comments@raibledesigns.com". There's no warning. Lars, you entered your GMail account and there's a warning. Maybe the warning is displayed when the "from" is @gmail.com and it's not sent via GMail.

Posted by Matt Raible on October 20, 2004 at 09:22 AM MDT #

It's got something to do with "phishing":
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8253&rand=0.07818189857183877

Posted by Lars Fischer on October 20, 2004 at 12:41 PM MDT #

I think it's DomainKeys, check http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

Posted by Joris V on October 21, 2004 at 06:38 AM MDT #

Sounds like perhaps they implemented SPF - http://spf.pobox.com/ Which reminds me, I *really* need to get SPF records added to the DNS for my own various domains. A bunch of the major e-mail carriers are supposed to be turning this stuff on soon.

Posted by Mike Gunderloy on October 21, 2004 at 07:30 AM MDT #

My gmail actually got spoofed today and I reported it to Google. They responded right away saying that my account had been spoofed and they were launching an investigation. Guess I must not be the only one.

Posted by Ashley on June 06, 2006 at 03:37 PM MDT #

I can't login to my gmail account at all...page just continually tries to load, and never times out, but never loads...

Posted by Gary on April 29, 2008 at 06:07 AM MDT #

i deleted 63 blocked spam emails from my gmail acct last week and havent been able to access my acct since .it just keeps on trying to load

Posted by tracy bowers on July 16, 2008 at 06:10 PM MDT #

WHY DO I HAVE SOOOOOO MUCH SPAM!!!! I can't get rid of it !!! x-(

Posted by olivia on March 09, 2009 at 05:23 PM MDT #

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