Phishing Warning – Your Gmail Account Verification!!!

I just received an email that said I should verify my gmail account. It was sent from an emailadress of dataconfmation.accnt@gmail.com with username: Gmaildata@googlemail.com
This email seems to be a phishing attack – they ask for your gmail password! Do not reply to it!. It looks like this:

This verification updates is mandatory for all our Users. It was sent from the Google mail server to verify and confirm your identity on the new database system. There has been several multiple logon attempts mismatch on your Gmail Account from an undisclosed IP/Computer location. You are requested to verify your membership details below correctly with Gmail Account Registration.
Email ID…
Complete Name…
Current Password…
Confirm Your Password…
Present State/Country…
WARNING!: Failure to confirm and verify your Gmail account informations above might lead to your account permanently suspended. Thanks for Using our Service.
Google Information Team.

I looked at the original mail header and found it was sent from this IP adress 173.201.193.58 this IP adress seems to belong to GoDaddy.com which to my knowledge has nothing to do with Googles servers.

Received: by 10.147.99.19 with SMTP id b19cs181882yam;
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.236.153.34 with SMTP id e22mr566483yhk.31.1308134094531;
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from p3plwbeout16-03.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtp16-03-2.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.58])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id x67si1572980yhm.47.2011.06.15.03.34.54;
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 173.201.193.58 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of shellas@shirley96.com) client-ip=173.201.193.58;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 173.201.193.58 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of shellas@shirley96.com) smtp.mail=shellas@shirley96.com
Received: (qmail 24046 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2011 10:33:53 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (173.201.193.116)
by p3plwbeout16-03.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 2011 10:33:53 -0000
Received: (qmail 13798 invoked by uid 99); 15 Jun 2011 10:33:53 -0000
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”utf-8″
X-Originating-IP: 41.31.166.40
User-Agent: Web-Based Email 5.5.04
Message-Id: <20110615033352.f62b473ae466140dc2c2e44a9d3c781c.e366dd049c.wbe@email16.secureserver.net>
From: “Gmaildata@googlemail.com”
X-Sender: shellas@shirley96.com
To:
Subject: Your Gmail Account Verification!!!
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:33:52 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0

In case I am misinterpreting this mail and it isn’t a phishing attack pleas tell me!

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