AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021

I'm getting occasional Delivery Status Notification (Failure) emails about my email address?

I've read about odd delivery status notification (failure) messages before but I've been getting them every once in a while and they always say that the email I tried sending to my own email address failed due to the email not existing? When obviously my email does actually exist since I'm using it to read this email... I'm just so confused. Can anyone give me some logical explanation for this?
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Aug 22, 2021
 thanks
 
  its a scam called phishing ( see https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2952493 )  to try steal your private info / password / maybe even money , click on the down arrow at the top right of the email ( next to reply ) and select "Report phishing" from the drop down menu.  ( if the email is still in your inbox after you do this then select it and click report spam ) This will help Gmail warn others that the email is a scam , if the sender uses gmail - also use the following form:  http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_phishing  
 
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Jim Lovallo
Aug 22, 2021
I received 2 of 'delivery status failure notifications' today. They were to me but changed normal 'gmail.com' to 'google.com'.  I'm guessing these are spam but couldn't find any background detail on the senders email address.   Anyone have similar or thoughts on this?
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Aug 22, 2021
also
 
 
 
 
  any email from Google must **end** in google.com  ( so for example this can also be legit scoutcamp.bounces.google.com and this too gaia.bounces.google.com ) - but even if it does -  click the show details arrow and make sure the domain you see next to the 'mailed-by' or 'signed-by' lines matches the sender's email address. If you see messages claiming to be from google.com, but are not properly authenticated as coming from google.com, then they are  phishing messages.   
 
 
 
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icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
search your sent mail for that address , you might have clicked a reply to all 
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icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
@google.com is reserved for employees  
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icantchooseone
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@google.com is reserved for employees  
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AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021
But I didn't try to send myself any email using @google.com so this email is referring to an actual nonexistent email that I never tried to send....
Jim Lovallo
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Aug 22, 2021
I received 2 of 'delivery status failure notifications' today. They were to me but changed normal 'gmail.com' to 'google.com'.  I'm guessing these are spam but couldn't find any background detail on the senders email address.   Anyone have similar or thoughts on this?
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icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
search your sent mail for that address , you might have clicked a reply to all 
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icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
also
 
 
 
 
  any email from Google must **end** in google.com  ( so for example this can also be legit scoutcamp.bounces.google.com and this too gaia.bounces.google.com ) - but even if it does -  click the show details arrow and make sure the domain you see next to the 'mailed-by' or 'signed-by' lines matches the sender's email address. If you see messages claiming to be from google.com, but are not properly authenticated as coming from google.com, then they are  phishing messages.   
 
 
 
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AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021
I've not even tried replying to an email in maybe months so that's not a possibility but yes I've also checked my sent messages and there are no new sent messages. My own email is probably one of the most frequent emails I send things to for getting photos from my phone and onto my ipad without having to connect my ipad to any computer but I have my own email within my contacts with the correct @gmail.com domain so these random messages are pretty fishy in my opinion should I just mark it as spam and hope it works?
AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021
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 so it's safe to say that this is a phishing email or...?
icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
use a pc
 
click the show details **arrow** and make sure the domain you see next to the 'mailed-by' or 'signed-by' lines matches the sender's email address.
 
 
icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
its not spam
 
spam is stuff like adverts and "you won $10000000"
AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021
I do not currently have access to a PC and haven't for a while, since my laptop died a couple years ago... I think I'm just going to mark it/report it Since things are not at all adding up, and just hope it helps lead to this no longer occuring.
icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
its not spam
 
spam is stuff like adverts you never subscribed to  and rubbish like  "you won $10000000"
 
 
AmberRøse
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Aug 22, 2021
So I switched my browser to desktop view as well as chose the plain HTML option and opened the email and this strange "hi dear" thing at the end wasn't there in the mobile view that I had originally posted a screenshot of so... Yeah I think I'ma have to assume this is some sort of sketchy thing because why would a Google system message say "click here to unsubscribe" I've had enough legitimate failed sending messages to know that non of em were random or this strange.... 
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icantchooseone
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Aug 22, 2021
 thanks
 
  its a scam called phishing ( see https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2952493 )  to try steal your private info / password / maybe even money , click on the down arrow at the top right of the email ( next to reply ) and select "Report phishing" from the drop down menu.  ( if the email is still in your inbox after you do this then select it and click report spam ) This will help Gmail warn others that the email is a scam , if the sender uses gmail - also use the following form:  http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_phishing  
 
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