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There are translation errors.

"you accidentally received an email from Itch" does not mean the same as "you accidentally received an email from Itch" in the context in which I used it.

Yes, I was wrong. Excuse me.

The possibility in question was the possibility of my guessing. Not the possibility of you receiving the email, and certainly not the implication of receiving the email in error.

To be honest, I don't know how much Google is involved in the use of itch, but I would find it surprising if developers were contacted directly by Google about their itch activity. However, Itch uses some data from Google Analytics.

Look, you're very smart, congratulations. I think you got it right.

While this might be too technical or complicated, anyone can try to verify if an email is not authentic by checking the email header. Read the heading from bottom to top and read the first "from". There are written IP addresses. The first non-local IP address should be the sender. And then you look up who owns that IP address. It is sometimes possible to spot obvious scammers this way, especially from large Internet companies. Someone claiming to be such a large company would not send from an IP belonging to small servers in distant countries or IP addresses used by private home networks. In theory, those IP addresses could be spoofed, but I've never seen a scam/spam like this. It's difficult to spoof IP addresses, and most people don't know how to verify them anyway, so they simply spoof the sender and content of the mail. Usually invoking some urgency and asking the recipient to click on links in the email.

I think it's just like you said. I don't know much about telematics. I'll send you a screenshot of the message.


If there was no link in the email to click on, it probably wasn't a scam. But perhaps there was a misunderstanding about the topic of this email.

Yes, the connection was there.

Thank you so much.

P.S. What should I do ?

Remove screenshots that potentially show private information about you. Like your merchant id.

Did you register a merchant account? https://www.google.com/retail/solutions/merchant-center/

If so, visit it, and look if it demands any updates from you. But do not use the links provided in the mail, unless you can read urls and can spot malicious urls.