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Phishing Mails (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
 

This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our info@lemmy.world mail address telling that they are "lemmy.world Security Team", telling that they will "disconnect" your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like.

~Lemmy World Team.

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[โ€“] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My spam folder is still chock full of those.

[โ€“] BeanEater@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whenโ€™s the last time you checked your spam folder, 2003? I legitimately havenโ€™t seen the 1337sp34k spam in 20 years. Lately itโ€™s been Africans leaving me money at the embassy that I have to go pick up

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For some reason I seem to be getting a lot of spam emails in French. And all of the links are pretending to be French Canadian postal service websites.

I don't know why because I'm neither French nor Canadian. Nor have I ever been to Canada.

[โ€“] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

and isn't everyone a candidate for 'best business in canada' these days?

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The subject is sometimes a word with random capitalisation and potentially letters replaced with numbers or symbols.

[โ€“] ares35@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

lately i've been getting a lot of phishing attempts targeting users and customers of mainstream sites with that, or l___o___t___s of punctuation separation i.n t.h.e t.e.x.t itself.