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Goggle Buzz - hot target for spammers

Spammers found a new way to lure people. They are utilizing the Google Buzz service to fool people. I received the below mail which says that Google is compensating the buzz users in cash... Note: This is a SPAM mail. I posted it here for the interest of Google Buzz users. If you receive this mail, you are a victim of spammers. Please do not respond or click any link in the mail. Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are making an exception to let you know that we've reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz ( http://buzz.google.com ), a service we launched within Gmail in February of this year. Shortly after its launch, we heard from a number of people who were concerned about privacy. In addition, we were sued by a group of Buzz users and recently reached a settlement in this case. The settlement acknowledges that we quickly changed the service to address users' concerns. In addition, Google has committed $8.5 million to an independent fun