(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

Fri Aug 4 14:11:47 UTC 2017

Am Freitag, 4. August 2017, 15:30:06 CEST schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > > It wasn't a html mail...
> > 
> > Google absolutely sends HTML email! But maybe those are preferences.
> 
> The mails which I recieved, are plain text messages. I couldn't find any 
> setting on the goolge account page, about HTML mails. I also don't remember 
> having turned off HTML in mails, either. Maybe security mails are treated
> differently.

I've checked again if the mail is a HTML mail. This time I saved it to disk as 
an .mbox file, and opened it with a text editor.

The message looks very very suspicious. There are vast areas with binary data 
in it. It's also big (12k). There is a block  of text which begins with "<html 
...". Should I post it (as an attachement) to this list (for the curious ones 
of you)?

Why did KMail tell me, that this was a plain text mail? Why did the displayed 
message look exactly like a plain text message? (And not like an approximation 
of some HTML in plain text) This must be a very well crafted phishing mail, if 
it is one.

=:-(

Now, why *does* there be an "unknown device" listed on the google accounts 
website???

Bye
Volker