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Hey, I got this email today, my first thought was it is spam phishing for info


G+_Michael ONeal
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Hey, I got this email today, my first thought was it is spam/phishing for info. But then I got a more legit looking email from UbiSoft saying one of their "Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems" now I am not sure if it was a legit email from Google or not.

 

Anyone have any thoughts?

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It's very obviously spam. The email didn't come from Google. Google doesn't refer to Gmail in that rainbow of colors and they would never send you a pdf of your Gmail account info. Opening up that email on your tablet won't compromise it either. The pdf would have to be written in a way that it would infect android and not windows which it most likely is.

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I regularly install the semi-nightly Android Open Kang Project ROM builds on my Galaxy S3. I also had reservations about using 2-factor authentication on my phone.

I found that using LastPass to keep a secure note containing a list of one-time passwords generated during the Google security setup and using one of the one-time passwords to initially authenticate my phone with my Google account each time after installing the ROM works well. It requires that I have access to an Internet connected PC, which is a minor inconvenience for major security improvement.?

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