youtube sending malicious emails

[Avinoam73]

i'm getting emails from youtube saying that "*insert name here* has sent you a message". the messages are spam, and they look something like this: "Hi Alex this is the girl you were talking with at the restaurant! My profile on the website I was telling you about is this <Mod Edit>

Please message me there asap to get this thing going!!"

the messages look as if they were sent by youtube, but they don't have the same structure as the ones i get when my comments get replied for instance. i have not pressed any link. i got one last week, one yesterday and 3 today.
please help

 

[Gbz Goldenboyz]

If you are using gmail mark this email and similar as spam

 

[Avinoam73]

won't it send real emails from youtube to spam as well?

 

[rgd1101]

It is not youtube sending the email, it spammer sending email using a fake send from address.
Not much you can do. just delete them.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Read the header and you'll see that they're not coming from YouTube. The <from> field is easily forged.