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tg66577
New Poster
3 years ago

phishing email

I received an email from this hughnet.net address and determined it is a phishing email. Searching the support page, I found that spam@uce.gov is the recommended address to forward this email to. The...
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  • tg66577's avatar
    tg66577
    3 years ago

    I looked at the address of the sender and it said hughnet. so that raised a red flag. Then running down the email, I saw that it was asking for a password and other info that made me tag it as phishing exercise. I'm not sure that I can do a screen shot so take my word for it as very suspicious. Hughnet?Hughesnet. I'll forward it to abuse@hughesnet as you suggest.

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
3 years ago

How did you determine it was spam? It would help if you posted a screenshot. 

 

EDIT: according to this policies page, you should report the suspected spam to abuse@hughes.net

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    tg66577
    New Poster
    3 years ago

    I looked at the address of the sender and it said hughnet. so that raised a red flag. Then running down the email, I saw that it was asking for a password and other info that made me tag it as phishing exercise. I'm not sure that I can do a screen shot so take my word for it as very suspicious. Hughnet?Hughesnet. I'll forward it to abuse@hughesnet as you suggest.

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      3 years ago

      Thank goodness for bad spellers!

       

      tg66577 wrote:

      I looked at the address of the sender and it said hughnet. so that raised a red flag. Then running down the email, I saw that it was asking for a password and other info that made me tag it as phishing exercise. I'm not sure that I can do a screen shot so take my word for it as very suspicious. Hughnet?Hughesnet. I'll forward it to abuse@hughesnet as you suggest.

       

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        MarkJFine
        Professor
        3 years ago

        Nice catch.

        People falling for those kinds of phishing schemes is likely the #1 reason why the email system has so many flagged spam problems... after their email accounts have been hacked. Well, if you can call it a hack after they've handed them the access information.