Head Scratcher

[FredOnline]

I received an e-mail today from the "G Suite Team" entitled:

G Suite/Cloud Identity Data Processing Amendment updated to address the invalidation of EU-US Privacy Shield

There are a few links in the e-mail, and they appear to resolve to google.com.

The head scratcher was this:

You have received this important update about your Google Cloud account because you designated this email address as a primary or secondary contact for mandatory service communications in your Admin console profile.

Now, the e-mail address quoted was "fixed@" at a domain name I had purchased a few weeks ago.

I had initially just set up a catchall address for the domain, but I certainly had not created a "fixed@" address or indeed not used this new domain at any of my G Suite accounts.

Yet, the e-mail does appear genuine.

However a search on this website may have solved this:

https://whoisrequest.com/history/

It showed that the domain in question had been dropped 4 times in the previous 5 years, before I purchased it.

So I would assume that a previous owner of the domain had a G Suite account, but had not updated it.

So hopefully, mystery solved?

[jarland]

You might find some interesting data at cloud.google.com if you can get into that account. Probably just historical though. It’s not just gsuite based on that text, but also Google Cloud (their AWS competitor). I use their DNS service these days, great setup.