Comments on: Scammers use Gmail invite as phishing hook

Fake e-mails sent to Gmail account holders attempt to garner addresses and passwords.

[pentium4forever]

Passwords? Obvious scam

The fact that the messages ask for passwords is a obvious scam. No email service would ask for that, not usually I wouldn't think anyway.

[zaz.net]

But it does work

The scheme may seem easy to spot, but it does work. I worry every time I get a new (5 year old) chainmail from my mother in law that tells me Bill Gates is going to give me a thousand dollars to forward t his email...

It won't be long before they present a website where the user is presented a fake GMail website that requests them to login. It is already done for EBay and PayPal. This is the problem of popularity on any site.

Any time you have something you desire, someone else might desire it as well and will devise a way to steal it from you.

Who are these people?

I'm usualy not so insesitive but people should know by now. If they give out their email adress AND password they deserve to get dumped on with spam. They should thank their stupid butts that's all they get.

[Fray9]

More obvious reason

The most obvious, effortless and profitable reason I can see for stealing a G-Mail account would be to auction it off. It only stands to reason that with prices for gmail accounts on ebay falling people would need to increase supply and sell them in bulk to keep their profit margin.

I really dont buy the spam theory myself.. seems an awful lot of trouble to go through to get an email account with a lot of space to *recieve* emails when you only intend to *SEND* emails from it. You can send thousands of emails a day from any account even one with no storage space.