Support@lindenlab.com

Today I received the following mail from "service@lindenlab.com".

Dear user robin,

You have successfully updated the password of your Lindenlab account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact Lindenlab customer service at: [email]service@lindenlab.com[/email]

Thank you for using Lindenlab!
The Lindenlab Support Team

You should all know there is no such email address as "service@lindenlab.com". Any contact you get from LL will come from support@.

And as always, please don't divulge your passwords to other SL residents.

Wow, I'm surprised someone actually thought you would fall for that.

Just so you all know, these phishing schemes are always going on. It makes the name of the company based on the domain in the email address - thus, for Robin it would say "Lindenlab". If Robin worked at Microsoft and had the email [email]robin@microsoft.com[/email] instead, the email would have instead read like this:


We've had these going around our office too. Always be paranoid when it comes to incoming email.

Regards,

-Flip

PS ResMods: I triple dog dare ya to move this to Notices & Well Wishes! C'mon!

no shit, that would be hilarious! I too have seen this phish on none other than the patriot guard riders email server. Some folks will stoop to any level.

nvm..... so robin, you going to mail them?

i dun get it?

if they're inviting responses to an address at lindenlab.com, how will anyone other than LL receive any email you might send? Basically, explain to me in words of less than 3 syllables how this is a phishing scam? It seems incredibly pointless.

Sure, if there was a duplicated scam website at Lindenlabs.com or something that invited you to 'log in' and thus recorded your password, I get it. But this? I dun get it?

Typically the link "service@domain.com" isn't actually a mail-to link but a web link that forwards to a phishing web site.

Regards,

-Flip

oh. Well, I can't see that many people would fall for it cuz it sucks. It wouldnt even occur to me to click a mailto link in the email because I'd want to forward or reply with the original email so they knew what I was referring to. And the wording is all wrong to make people click a link. Pfft. I'm confident I could phish SO much better.

This is a common tactic with people phishing paypal info, as well. I get some of those every day in my 4 email inboxes, and I'm sure to forward them on to [email=spoof@paypal.com]spoof@paypal.com[/email]. Like Mulder said, "trust no one".

Someone on your contact list has a worm. We had the same one where I work. Usually a zip file attached that someone will open and also get the worm...

W32.Mytob.MX@mm, W32/Mytob, W32/Mytob.QP@mm, Win32/Mytob.LP

some of the variations...

I'm sure you know the extent to which some people will go to prove just how gullible they are.