Never Trust Your Spam Filter

  • Posted on
  • by
  • in

Being an Android owner I have a Gmail account. Checking my spambox the other day I found this message:

Dear Google Wallet user,
To ensure that you're able to access all of the Google Wallet services and features available in your area, we need you to confirm your home address where you reside. Please visit your Google Wallet account settings page and update your information to ensure continued access to all the features of your Google Wallet account.
For more information, please visit our Help Centre: http://support.google.com/wallet/bin/answer.py?answer=2560589
Sincerely, The Google Wallet Team You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Wallet account. Please do not reply to this email. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

On the face of it a simple phish - Google's filter obviously thaught so, but it is in fact a genuine e-mail sent by Google thenselves. Their own SPF and DKIM tests resulted in a pass, as revealed in the headers. The link is to https://wallet.google.com, so that is also genuine. So if you receive spam, be sure to go through it, you never know what you might find!