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| | | Author: | Nicholas_morrow  | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 21:47 | | Subject: | Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 169 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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| | | | | Author: | WildersBricks | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 22:02 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| I just got the same email.
In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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| | | | | | | Author: | WildersBricks | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 22:20 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Received the same email a second time within 20 minutes of the first one. The
email states the following. I strongly dislike scammers!
Hello
Someone has signed in to your account.
When: 2024-Mar-20 02:17:12 UTC
IP: 67.60.0.23
Near: USA
If this was you, you can ignore this email. If this wasn't you, contact support
and click the button below to log all devices out of your account.
Log out all devices
This button is valid for 30 minutes
Thank you,
The BrickLink Team
In Technical Issues, WildersBricks writes:
| | I just got the same email.
In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | The_Boyz_Bricks | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 22:29 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, WildersBricks writes:
| | Received the same email a second time within 20 minutes of the first one. The
email states the following. I strongly dislike scammers!
Hello
Someone has signed in to your account.
When: 2024-Mar-20 02:17:12 UTC
IP: 67.60.0.23
Near: USA
If this was you, you can ignore this email. If this wasn't you, contact support
and click the button below to log all devices out of your account.
Log out all devices
This button is valid for 30 minutes
Thank you,
The BrickLink Team
In Technical Issues, WildersBricks writes:
| | I just got the same email.
In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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This is probably a dumb question, but how do you know that the email is fake?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 22:39 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | This is probably a dumb question, but how do you know that the email is fake?
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by looking at who sent it and hovering over the button to see where the link
goes. if the email doesn't end with exactly "@bricklink.com" then
its not from bricklink and if the link goes to anywhere that isn't"bricklink.com"
then its likely not real (baring rare interview like emails)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 20:12 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | This is probably a dumb question, but how do you know that the email is fake?
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by looking at who sent it and hovering over the button to see where the link
goes. if the email doesn't end with exactly "@bricklink.com" then
its not from bricklink and if the link goes to anywhere that isn't"bricklink.com"
then its likely not real (baring rare interview like emails)
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In truth even when I know its from Bricklink such as a Pay my fee reminder I
always try to avoid following links within emails as people can do clever things
with making a recipient address look legitimate besides which, if you routinely
follow links via emails you only increase your chances of being exposed to any
risks
Where possible I prefer to Login from scratch to Bricklink(or any Other site)
and seek out whatever it is they are asking me to do from there, be that paying
my fee etc..
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WildersBricks | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 00:42 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| As Nubs_Select stated, it doesn't end in BrickLink.com. I have never seen
a Bricklink email sent with .net. Also some of the formatting looks different.
It's a scam.
In Technical Issues, The_Boyz_Bricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, WildersBricks writes:
| | Received the same email a second time within 20 minutes of the first one. The
email states the following. I strongly dislike scammers!
Hello
Someone has signed in to your account.
When: 2024-Mar-20 02:17:12 UTC
IP: 67.60.0.23
Near: USA
If this was you, you can ignore this email. If this wasn't you, contact support
and click the button below to log all devices out of your account.
Log out all devices
This button is valid for 30 minutes
Thank you,
The BrickLink Team
In Technical Issues, WildersBricks writes:
| | I just got the same email.
In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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This is probably a dumb question, but how do you know that the email is fake?
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| | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 23:02 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | | | Author: | chriselliottart | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 23:21 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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I've received the same email as well. I DM'd bricklink on twitter about
it, should probably also alert them here too
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 06:25 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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Do yourself a favour. Set up a filter to automatically delete any email from
support@Policyking.net.
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| | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 20:26 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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We received 5 of those emails in a span of 2 hours today.
Any idea where they get BL user email addresses?
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 20:54 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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We received 5 of those emails in a span of 2 hours today.
Any idea where they get BL user email addresses?
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There are many ways to get e-mail addresses, specific ones or in bulk lists.
Ex: a buyer 3 years ago could have his PC infected by a trojan or a virus which
will parse all his local e-mails and send the addresses From/To etc.
Or another site you registered which had its database hacked.
Or often, while simply Googling the web.
And zillion other ways, most of them not being related to BrickLink.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | stabo2855 | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 16:14 | | Subject: | Re: Phishing emails | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Technical Issues, Nicholas_morrow writes:
| | I have gotten several emails from support@Policyking.net about suspicious activity.
They keep trying to hack into my account.
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We received 5 of those emails in a span of 2 hours today.
Any idea where they get BL user email addresses?
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There are many ways to get e-mail addresses, specific ones or in bulk lists.
Ex: a buyer 3 years ago could have his PC infected by a trojan or a virus which
will parse all his local e-mails and send the addresses From/To etc.
Or another site you registered which had its database hacked.
Or often, while simply Googling the web.
And zillion other ways, most of them not being related to BrickLink.
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