Attempted phishing e-mail

Hey,
I just recieved an e-mail impersonating Skype. They did a pretty good job, it is a "welcome to skype" e-mail using a name token very closely resembling my own. Pretty obvious that ALL the links in the e-mail would lead an unsuspecting person to get their account phished.
Not sure what I can do other than give you guys a heads up, it slipped past Gmail's spam filter--should be a red flag.
- Paul

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