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Email validation?Hi dslx team. I received an odd email overnight, and am curious of its validity. I have never seen such an email asking me to click a link to verify my email address in my 10 years of being a customer before. We all know about the security risks of clicking links in emails, especially those unsolicited.
Dear Subscriber,
We shall be carrying out service maintenance on our database and e-mail account center for better Online services efficiency. In order to ensure you do not experience service interruptions/possible deactivation.
Please Click the Link Below to Validate Your Mailbox. https :// securehost. seamlessdocs. com (truncated to hide full address)
Failure to do this will immediately render your Web-email address deactivated from our database.
Thanks DSL Account-Support. ©1999-2015 DSL Extreme - All Rights Reserved. |
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Brian3527 1 edit |
BTW, the email is from Karen Carpenter?? Furthermore, it was sent to only the main user name on my account. Would you even delete the main username on a account? None of my secondary addresses received the validation request. |
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sashwa Mod join:2001-01-29 Alcatraz |
to Brian3527
Looks like it's a phishing email to me. |
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That is what I am thinking sashwa. What is kind of making me think about it a little more though, is that I recently switched to TrueStream, and since those accounts are not serviced by DSLX the same way as traditional DSL, maybe this could be a valid request. But then again, I just can't believe they would resort to this method. |
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dslx_nick ISP Employee join:2011-12-24 Chatsworth, CA |
Just checked and confirmed - yeah, that's totally phishing. Don't click on the link. |
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Thanks Nick. I didn't click it. I don't think I have had a phishing email get through Gmail like this before. There have been a few automatically caught and sent to my spam folder, but none like this. Thanks for the quick response! |
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dslx_nick ISP Employee join:2011-12-24 Chatsworth, CA |
No problem. Thanks for the head's up! Most phishing emails get caught automatically as you noted, but looks like the system hasn't wizened up to this one yet. Up top there should be an option to click on to mark it as phishing - would suggest doing so with this email, to help alert the system so it catches any others. |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA TP-Link TD-8616 Asus RT-AC66U B1 Netgear FR114P
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to Brian3527
Sam Spade tells me: Sam Spade report.
He could say more with full headers.
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Became very obvious this was a phishing attempt after seeing the full headers. A .edu add supposedly from DSLExtreme?? I reported it in Gmail as a phishing attempt.
Delivered-To: XXXXXXX@dslextreme.com Received: by 10.140.31.246 with SMTP id f109csp192242qgf; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:10 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.70.100.202 with SMTP id fa10mr12712184pdb.131.1422091510116; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:10 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from exprod5og101.obsmtp.com (exprod5og101.obsmtp.com. [64.18.0.141]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id by8si2328765pab.69.2015.01.24.01.25.09 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:10 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of kcarpenter@coker.edu designates 64.18.0.141 as permitted sender) client-ip=64.18.0.141; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of kcarpenter@coker.edu designates 64.18.0.141 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=kcarpenter@coker.edu Received: from mail-oi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]) (using TLSv1) by exprod5ob101.postini.com ([64.18.4.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKVMNk9dKscaCfu68TNfSveSDA5Zwc6eN8@postini.com; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:09 PST Received: by mail-oi0-f41.google.com with SMTP id z81so1237608oif.0 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:09 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J2427bi/0RFPTopEG4WtUftHEgbscU/JKrWPJWjKpPg=; b=m48MVcTqArPuUeH4Ki8f70TWGhbDYrPcd6cjTSVMS9EmOcr4JF69n1riXlXgrxry96 t6zhltTMJTEzY1o08olXZKXEEzg51IFWfTMwwSIY9j7jDDzgWz0/ATkB0eaWlYWEWF9e f8xd6Emoy3ZiQqX2cdIm5TBHKfjJ4rJ3N2TKTg0iQoGpIbXMVYM/QBZNnmLZoUHKWGvw aSH9hpmYXkqHSEGPsMY4Q+EuFpeROMer4NK+Nwp0Oq4mG3H3RW/PUuT1JWTKiiJaw7Rd xDPQtLUYzixK7ve0FpKX9c/L0oTLYGcIGF3zIQV+5n4Vie8/x4LHrUNRZ9/GULCczblT 0Xig== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl1WZkZ2bzFAfLzuwQeodED8DM8Bo8DKmlhe7aYHF5N+hd6fXa2m6ZzANqC9Q5+ivAXtmnJqMyMUFEVlw78+rABriORLoAn9wCedA5ytlgjJF5wK6rTCKrMJ0WfkLLH8fCoUAjoffJ5p5kFbzbQsfZw5hqqtA== X-Received: by 10.202.201.194 with SMTP id z185mr6819374oif.32.1422091508995; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.201.194 with SMTP id z185mr6819365oif.32.1422091508925; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.73.169 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:25:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:25:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Dear DSL Extreme Subscriber, From: Karen Carpenter To: undisclosed-recipients:; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bcc: XXXXXXX@dslextreme.com
Dear Subscriber,
We shall be carrying out service maintenance on our database and e-mail account center for better Online services efficiency. In order to ensure you do not experience service interruptions/possible deactivation.
Please Click the Link Below to Validate Your Mailbox. [Link removed. /sash]
Failure to do this will immediately render your Web-email address deactivated from our database.
Thanks DSL Account-Support. =C2=A91999-2015 DSL Extreme - All Rights Reserved. |
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