funkyy Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 First of all I hope I'm posting this in the right section...at least I'm trying to!! I just got an email from "Yahoo" see below. The tone, bad grammar and dead contact details at the bottom made even me smell a rat. The majority of you guys are way smarter than me so this probably looks so obvious to you too. But there may be some members who are not so adept at sussing out this kind of trap and so I'm posting this for them. I've told my wife...she's even less tech savvy than me..."oh look, a pretty coloured button...Click!!"🤣🤣🤣 Final Notification Newest Mail-Box Upgrade ! Yahoo! Center © <[email protected]> Wed, Oct 14 at 11:53 AM Yahoo Dear Yahoo Member Your Mail version is outdated, Failure to Upgrade to the newest Mailbox. Failure to upgrade will result to a permanent closure account. Follow our link below to upgrade. Click To Upgrade Thanks for choosing us, Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Customer Support ©2020 Yahoo 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Its a trick to steal your info https://maltiverse.com/hostname/yahoomailupdatecom.weebly.com https://maltiverse.com/hostname/yahoomailsw.weebly.com https://maltiverse.com/hostname/verifyyahoomail.weebly.com weebly.com is a free website builder https://www.weebly.com/ as you can see they been very busy they have many phishing urls. Yahoo login is https://login.yahoo.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 steven36, yes I realized that immediately and sent it to my trash bin. I informed my sister and my wife and told them to alert their friends too. I hope the ratbags who are behind this scam eat a Coronavirus pie for their supper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maia Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 For curiosity, any AV web protection detects the yahoo link above as phishing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jogs Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 1 hour ago, maia said: For curiosity, any AV web protection detects the yahoo link above as phishing? There's not even a single detection on Virus Total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted October 15, 2020 Author Share Posted October 15, 2020 2 hours ago, maia said: For curiosity, any AV web protection detects the yahoo link above as phishing? ESET, Malwarebytes anti malware and anti-exploit didn't give an alert. I am suspicious by nature so it was an easy spot that this was fake. But other folk might fall for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrojanK Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 11:06 PM, funkyy said: But other folk might fall for it. I did 😥 I read it as https://yahoomail.weebly.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentuser12 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Some spammers keep sending these emails every other day. Few are even sending them from non yahoo emails 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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