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.

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    1 year ago

    Jesus. Phishing emails like this have become so commonplace I actually miss the old Viagra spam emails in l33tspeak.

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        1 year ago

        When’s the last time you checked your spam folder, 2003? I legitimately haven’t seen the 1337sp34k spam in 20 years. Lately it’s been Africans leaving me money at the embassy that I have to go pick up

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          1 year ago

          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.

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          1 year ago

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

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        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.