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  • It seems to be real, there are now articles talking about this and was also covered here. Commented Jun 29 at 0:43
  • The email is clear a scam since it’s not your compute resource. The scammer is betting your familiar enough with the Polyfill.io exploit. If you have any doubts contact Google.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jun 29 at 2:46
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    lustrous-walker-427209-h5 is probably your instance's default name given by Google on creation. You can change it any time in the Google Cloud console.
    – TommyZG
    Commented Jun 29 at 6:56
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    @Ramhound - Turns out the e-mail was legit. See the accepted answer and my comment under it.
    – NewSites
    Commented Jun 29 at 12:40
  • @TommyZG - Depending on what you mean by "instance," you might be right. I found this "lust..." name in drop-down list immediately to right of "Google Cloud" heading at top-left of console. Opening that list gave me a list of projects, with name and ID for each. There are three projects listed, all default, since I didn't create any of them (at least, not on purpose). Strangely, two of them have the same name, "My First Project". The ID of the first one is "lustrous-walker-427209-h5". I wonder if it's a security problem that my question and these comments have broadcast that ID to the world.
    – NewSites
    Commented Jun 29 at 12:59