Yesterday I received a strange email sent to a neighborhood list by a neighbor. The subject was “Modesty Marquita” (which sounds like a stripper name, actually) and all that was in the body of the message was a URL to a webserver in Brazil. I searched the web for any references to either of these items and didn’t turn up anything unusual, so I wrote it off.
This evening made me change my mind, however. Another friend (Let’s call her Anne) sent out four similar emails. Same M.O.: a random person’s name in the subject line and a web URL in the body. That’s when I figured out something is not right in Gmail land.
The kicker was this message below (I’ve changed account data). This message was sent from one Gmail account to another one: in other words it never left Google’s network:
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