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Scam email, don’t fall for this

5 years ago

I got an email from Apple saying someone had signed into my Apple account to use FaceTime. It included a link to change my password. My spam filter did not catch it and it looked pretty legit. I was furious that someone had done this but i know better than to click on an unsolicited link. I went to my Settings and changed my password. I went back and looked at the original email and reread the subject and realized it was a scam. So watch out for this one. I consider myself fairly savvy about these things but didn’t catch it right away. The subject line was “We send information about your account was changed”. If I had read carefully I’d have caught it right away.

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OklaMoni

5 years ago

ALWAYS, always go to your accounts via your own saved, or their "parent link". NEVER, never click on a link from an email.

Moni

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maire_cate
5 years ago
I can easily see how that could happen. Whenever someone in my family changes their password on Comcast email I receive a notification from Comcast that someone has changed their password. Google also sends a notice if I change something or if I sign in from a new device.
roxanna7
5 years ago
reading carefully -- yep. Grammar is off!
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Michael
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or just hover over the link and read identifiers at bottom of browser..
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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Will second Moni's comment. For a period of several weeks to a month, I was getting repeated emails, supposedly from Microsoft, about a need to "update" my account immediately or my email would be curtailed. However they ALL came from various private email addresses, NOT Microsoft!! And yes, the grammar was off :-)

And no, my email account was just fine, thank you very much, and was never "curtailed"!
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5 years ago
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5 years ago
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I just got one this morning from Stars support

Hello,

Following your request to reset your password we have located the account(s) listed below. Please click the appropriate link (Stars ID) below to start the password reset process: Registered onAccount License Stars ID PokerStars .NET

The reset link(s) will expire in one hour (if necessary, please resubmit the request to generate a new email message).

Alternately, contact us via Contact Form
'Choose Category' > 'My Stars Account'
'Choose Sub-Category' > ‘Forgotten password or Stars ID’

If you don’t want to reset your password or if you didn’t request this change, you can ignore this email. If you have any further questions regarding the validity of this email or the security of your account, please visit our Help Centre Regards,
Stars Support

I want all of you to be aware of this on. I thought it was legit at first because my DD's email address was in the Stars ID box. She has given me some before about my GKids school things. This one didn't sound right though. I talked to her a bit later and I asked her about it and she said its a scam. I never had clicked anything and I hit the scam button. I deleted her email on this here so you all wouldn't get it. But it was there.

There were 3 boxes across. The first one said registered on Pokerstars, the second one said account license NET and the third one said Stars ID with DDs email address in it. I don't know why that part did not show up when I copied and pasted it. I hope you all understand how I explained this.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
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I got a couple of very legit looking ones a few days ago. One was a purchase to my PayPal and one was a purchase through the apple store. I don't have any apple anything definitely not an account. For PayPal I opened my browser and logged in to my account and checked for any such purchase. Nope not there of course. So in the spam folder they went. But I could see someone who was busy and not paying attention could have clicked on the PayPal one and got hit. It was a very good quality fake.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
5 years ago
I've also gotten them from PayPal. And various banks as well. But since I have no accounts with any of them, it's not too hard to figure out they were scamming. Or trying to :-)
nickel_kg
5 years ago
Thanks for the head's up. It would be easy enough to click and then think "uh oh, I shouldn't have!" It's good to not be in a hurry.
User
5 years ago
dragonflywings42
5 years ago
This prompted me to look in my email spam folder. Most were ads but I found about 6 scam requests from people hoping to reel me in. I've never had one of these make it into my normal email folders though.

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