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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€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is they did not. It doesn't appear to be targeting Lemmy, it's just a generic spam email.

Note the email was received at the info@lemmy.world address. The email most likely got the info@lemmy.world email address, took the domain from it, lemmy.world, and put this in their spam generator. The email doesn't even make sense, because it says they need to install an app for their mail but it's a custom domain.

If you imagine most of the emails on their spam list are @gmail.com or @outlook.com, etc, then the email looks like it is coming from the gmail.com security team or the outlook.com security team. The email no longer makes sense when you have a custom domain.

[โ€“] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I see. That makes perfect sense.