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#177753 13-Aug-2015 10:49
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I'm seeing a couple of warnings a week in gmail android app, topic notifications for geekzone threads

This mail contains content that is generally used to steal personal information.

Anyone else getting that? Any ideas?

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  #1365385 13-Aug-2015 10:51
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No idea why Gmail is doing that. 




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  #1365387 13-Aug-2015 10:53
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Yeah I haven't looked at it closely. Could be app only.

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  #1365523 13-Aug-2015 12:40
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I haven't seen it with the Gmail Android app



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  #1365542 13-Aug-2015 13:20
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I haven't seen on mine either but interesting so see it reported.




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  #1365564 13-Aug-2015 13:47
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I haven't seen it happening in my Gmail either. Is it happening for all your topic notifications, or just some specific ones? There might be some trigger words involved maybe.

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  #1365571 13-Aug-2015 13:51
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Or someone have reported the notification emails as spam to Gmail that Gmail start alerting.




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  #1365589 13-Aug-2015 14:27
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Not likely. Google Postmaster tells us the spam reporting rate for our domains is nonexistent.




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  #1366161 14-Aug-2015 10:56
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BlueShift: I haven't seen it happening in my Gmail either. Is it happening for all your topic notifications, or just some specific ones? There might be some trigger words involved maybe.


Very few. Opening the same notification twice and the message will usually go away. So it maybe a dynamic process. I will post the next example.

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  #1374623 26-Aug-2015 14:02
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I had this happen today. One of the thread notification emails had links that weren't active (in Inbox by Gmail, no other indication of an issue). I opened it in Gmail (web) and there was a notice that it looked suspicious but came from a trusted recipient. I chose the option to trust this email and everything was fine. No idea what the underlying issue is. Can someone use the "report phishing" option, is that the same as spam reporting?

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