Google sends emails that 100% look like phishing

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 515 points –

No, it's not phishing, it's legit, the header match with google and the link goes to https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser/signinchooser?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fadmin.google.com%2Fac%2Fac%2Falert%2Fdetails%3FalertId%3D3...

Why not just write the message there instead of letting me login to watch the important notification?????????????????

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I can see why they would want that. They may consider email to be inherently less safe than their platform, so they don't send any sensitive information there.

Canada's government stuff also generally works that way, except without any links.

I'm not sure how legit their concerns are, but it's a thing.

Canada Revenue Agency notice

In fact a lot of things do:

  • My bank
  • All monthly work pay notifications
  • All tax notifications

It's just normal to not include the actual information. But like you say, except sometimes the bank, they don't include links.

Public services here do that too. But they then use a known local service for that.