Well, this is quite worrisome: A phishing scam purported to be from Google, sent to my Gmail account, that Gmail didn’t flag as spam.
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Gmail is usually very good at catch spam and phishing scams. But given it’s purported to be from them, this is the sort of thing you think Google would be able to catch.