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BEWARE! Scam/phishing email!
- Thread starter The_Big_K
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Did you click on the link to see what the page looked like as in how authentic it appeared? 
When you find poor grammar in emails you should always be careful.
I get these at least once a week.
This guy got one of these scammers to spill the beans about the whole operation for $80. I actually felt sorry for this kid.
This guy got one of these scammers to spill the beans about the whole operation for $80. I actually felt sorry for this kid.
Just an FYI...
Anytime you receive these types of emails trying to ‘shadow hack’ Your information/credentials, make sure you forward this to Apple Or in the least, contact them, they usually like to have a track record of these types of phishing attempts.
Someone should write a script that clicks the link and types in bogus user and password thousands of times. Let the scammer spend a lifetime sorting the real from the fake.
yes, i sent it to Apple
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Did you click on the link to see what the page looked like as in how authentic it appeared?
Yes; I just got a warning (i was using Chrome browser,) & it said the site was unsafe, i opened it anyways: it's something called Plesk:
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Received a suspicious phishing email allegedly from McAfee. The email address is weird. Most scam emails make it sound “urgent” to prompt the recipient to respond. And sometimes there are words with wrong spellings. Like what others say, never click on links and open attachments.
There's also a fake email from my bank, requesting that I verify my account as it will be "locked" within 5 days. I called up the bank to verify and they said they never send emails of that nature.
There's also a fake email from my bank, requesting that I verify my account as it will be "locked" within 5 days. I called up the bank to verify and they said they never send emails of that nature.
They already blew it with that horrid grammar in the last sentence. Before that, it seemed ok beyond hovering on the link to see the real target.Did you click on the link to see what the page looked like as in how authentic it appeared?
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Used to get that crap from BoA and we don't even have them!
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yeah i just got the “Mcafee” from a site called “e5biz.biz” (or something like that)
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at my hospital, we have now switched to Microsoft for our online schedules & paystubs & tax forms... it’s ridiculous.
they call your phone every time you log in to verify,
& we have to change our password every month,
& it has to be like 20 characters, all mixed
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*in emails, you should
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yeah i just got the “Mcafee” from a site called “e5biz.biz” (or something like that)
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at my hospital, we have now switched to Microsoft for our online schedules & paystubs & tax forms... it’s ridiculous.
they call your phone every time you log in to verify,
& we have to change our password every month,
& it has to be like 20 characters, all mixed
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*in emails, you should
I used sayings like Ihatem4b0s5#* or something along the line when I was working!
I was getting them on my iCloud address for last three weeks, moved to spam and they do not appear anymore.
I was thinking sense iCloud maybe putting The Apple symbol (command button+Shift+k) in and iCloud account might work! I know not other bots can make the symbol might be an advantage!
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