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Google winning award email scam

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Just a quick post, because i've never seen this type of scam (using google as vector), but i think it's an old technique. I have won a cash price from google, but why gmail moved the email to spam section ? :( Attached pdf. Graphics seems to be created with paint, because is horrible. If they have to convince people to send their credentials, at least make a better template.

Poste Italiane phishing emails

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Poste italiane is the government-owned postal service of Italy and spammers use phishing techniques to trick people to send their credentials of online accounts and credit cards. The first of april i received an email from bancoposta@bpolbpol.com with this content. Basically it says that i have been selected to get a bonus of 250 euro and in order to complete the operation i must download the attachment. First of all we see that the domain of the sender is neither poste.it or postepay.it, this is kinda strange to be a legitimate email. I was curious to know the type of site behind the domain so i navigate to that url and i get a white screen with a blue write "website under construction". Maybe we can get more information checking throgh  http://whois.domaintools.com  who registered that domain. Few details: Record created: 2/7/2011 Record expires: 2/7/2012. Registration service provider: Aruba S.p.A.  Others details are omitted, becau...