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I also got this email and noticed it's from a bogus mail server:

Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning noreply@bitcoin.org does not designate 62.149.157.234 as permitted sender)

Wonder why Google's spam filtering didn't catch it...

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Because bitcoin.org's SPF record's failure mode is set to "softfail" rather than "fail" [1]. According to Wikipedia, "Typically, messages that return a SOFTFAIL are accepted but tagged".

[1] http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3abitcoin.org&...

Did the email you got contain the same "investment address"?

Yes

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