The link attached to “Click here” is as follows (I intentionally made it an image so no one accidentally clicks on it):
If you visit that page it will take you to a fake google login page as seen below. I visited it on a virtual machine running on my MacBook and then after doing all this reverted back to an old version of the disk to avoid picking up anything.
Fake (phishing) google login page |
If you enter your email address and password you will be giving your credentials to the hackers to use this same scheme on everyone in your address book and will be redirected to an authentic google login page that asks for your login information again (and defaults to the last account you logged into google with):
After giving your email and password away you are then redirected to this real google login page |
What to do if you fell for this phishing scheme:
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