Email from "Google" confirming my email addy ???

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Not sure if an email I got is legit or not. It comes from accounts.google.com which looks okay.

They want to confirm my email account, for "recovery" purposes. The email account I use 99.9% of the time is not Gmail.

Truthfully, I only value Google for its search engine, because I believe Google is enmeshed in a lot of business and sales stuff, and I suspect it tracks users and shares info with other corporations. (I hate spam-email advertising/promotion.) My only connection with the Google company is a Gmail account. And truly, I've hardly ever used my Gmail account. I vaguely remember that signing up for it enabled me to do something I needed my laptop to be capable of.

The email account I use daily is from a regional server, and that is the one the Google company sent me the "recovery" message on.🤷‍♀️
 

I use Gmail and Google does confirm my account recovery details on occasion. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the email you got is legit. Can you copy/paste the language of the request into Google to see if any red flags come up?
 
I occasionally receive those emails as well. The first few times, I checked my account and confirmed that my recovery information remained unchanged. Now, I simply delete them. AI has enabled scammers to spoof web addresses and pages so convincingly that distinguishing imposters from legitimate sources has become nearly impossible.
 

Rich said:
I occasionally receive those emails as well. The first few times, I checked my account and confirmed that my recovery information remained unchanged. Now, I simply delete them. AI has enabled scammers to spoof web addresses and pages so convincingly that distinguishing imposters from legitimate sources has become nearly impossible.
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I delete things like that too!

Scammers rely on the fact that most of us have been taught to follow the rules and be helpful/compliant.
 
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