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Request To Terminate Your Google™
Has anybody else received an email, 'Request To Terminate Your Google™
Has anybody else received this email?
Dear Gmail™ Customer, xxx@gmail.com
You submitted a request to terminate your Gmail mail account and the process has started by our Gmail™ Team, Please give us 3 working days to close your mail account.
To cancel the termination request reply to this mail.
All files on your Gmail mail including (Inbox, Sent, Spam, Trash, Draft) will be deleted and access to your Gmail™ mail account will be Denied.
If you wish to Terminate your Email Address, you can Sign Up for a new Gmail™ account.
For further help please contact by replying to this mail.
Regards,
Gmail™ Account Services
If yes, what action did you take?
It's spam.
What action did you take? - Ignored it and deleted the email.
Oh, dear, now you've told the spammers that your gmail address actually exists, and you're naive enough to reply to an obvious phishing trip. Not good.
I'm intrigued to know how you have a copy of the email if as you say, you "have no access to my old Gmail account"?
Anyway, apparently your only option now is to go here:
https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/recoveryidentifier?flowName=GlifWe...
You should also consider changing every password you have
If you have an android phone linked to your gmail account, consider that everything stored in your phone is also compromised.
If you use Google apps like G-Drive to back up files on your PC, that is all compromised as well.
Good Luck!
Just because you have replied to the e-mail would not have given the scammers any access to your Gmail account. However, are you absolutely sure you have not then replied to any subsequent e-mails, giving them your login details (to "prove that the account is yours" or something like that? Are you sure you have not clicked on the link "you can Sign Up for a new Gmail™ account" and registered on that page?
If you no longer have access to your old Gmail account, the scammers have somehow obtained your login and password, and the most likely explanation is that you have given these to them.