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Offline Phoenix87x

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So I accidentally just clicked on this stupid email and want to make sure nobody else does.

It says you are invited to a google doc. I wasn't thinking and clicked on it since was from somewhere I thought was legit.

It looks like this



note the h's, that's how you can tell.

Just be careful to avoid it

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2017, 01:51:39 PM »
 :tup
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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2017, 01:53:48 PM »
It's weird, but for a split second I had this thought.."Don't click on this thread." :lol
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2017, 02:00:50 PM »
What happened when you clicked it?

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2017, 02:04:04 PM »
I read the OP.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2017, 02:09:20 PM »
I also clicked on it for some stupid reason  :facepalm:

I didn't log in to anything though when it prompted me to.

Here's how to fix it if you do click on it
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/859856662835941376
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Who doubts what he's sure of.
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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2017, 02:12:06 PM »
 ;D
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2017, 02:20:42 PM »
I also clicked on it for some stupid reason  :facepalm:

I didn't log in to anything though when it prompted me to.

Here's how to fix it if you do click on it
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/859856662835941376

Perfect, thank you


What happened when you clicked it?

Well, of course it did the typical "you have a virus thing" , but it looked like something auto downloaded as well. Maybe it didn't,  I freaked out and closed everything without getting a real good look. It did want you to log in further though as SystematicThought mentioned.


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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2017, 02:35:37 PM »
I guess my question would be why would you click it? Were you expecting something from reception@reception? Have you ever even heard of such a thing? Were you expecting an invite from anybody?
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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2017, 02:37:38 PM »
For me, my email came from a student at the college I used to go to. Even though I graduated, I still get emails for surveys and such and that's what this one looked like.
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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2017, 03:04:30 PM »
I guess my question would be why would you click it? Were you expecting something from reception@reception? Have you ever even heard of such a thing? Were you expecting an invite from anybody?

I graduate next week. We just completed classes today. It said it was from the IPPE office, whom have been sending me emails almost on a daily basis regarding the graduation process and this fake one was mixed in with legit ones.

This is what I saw



So I clicked on it


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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2017, 06:33:37 AM »
I read the OP.

That's legendary.  :) 

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2017, 07:16:58 AM »
 :metal
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: There's a new Phishing email scam today. be sure to avoid it
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2017, 08:27:42 AM »
Don't take the bait!!!!! Lol jk