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This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] 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.
Jesus. Phishing emails like this have become so commonplace I actually miss the old Viagra spam emails in l33tspeak.
My spam folder is still chock full of those.
Whenβs the last time you checked your spam folder, 2003? I legitimately havenβt seen the 1337sp34k spam in 20 years. Lately itβs been Africans leaving me money at the embassy that I have to go pick up
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.
and isn't everyone a candidate for 'best business in canada' these days?
The subject is sometimes a word with random capitalisation and potentially letters replaced with numbers or symbols.
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.