What's for dinner.....SPAM/Phish?

[nihil]

OK Folks, here is areally weird one................

I have a Gmail account, and suddenly find myself getting these adverts from a French IT product supplier called "Micro Achat"..............I guess that in English, that works out something like "Microcomputer Purchases/Buyer" or whatever

Link to today's offering is here:

http://www.01net.com/outils/lastnewsletter/52.html

Now, on the mainpage...........that is the one that does not centre properly (there is an option to do this)....there is a link down the bottom to get a Gmail account, it would seem. If I click on it, it has already filled in the invite boxes with their name and e-mail When you take the correct/centre display option, this goes away.

Are they phishing for Gmail accounts? if so, why?

I have not given this mail addy out, and certainly not to a French IT supplier.

Anyone else seen or heard of anything similar?

EDIT:

These are the options on the mainpage that "go away"

Reply Forward Invite 01net.micro.achat to Gmail

Cheers

[rapier57]

Yeah ... tonight, I'm calling out for Pizza!

Either these folks wake up screaming at night, or this phishing/SPAMming work is really paying off.

[nihil]

Right, I have figured out a part of it. It seems that any mail you open will ask you to invite them to Gmail............that looks like a Gmail fault?

Still have to look at the SPAM issue..........it started during a period of around 10 days when I did not open Gmail, and I do not use the Gmail account for serious business as yet.

I will keep you informed, which is more than Gmail did for me