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tg66577
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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
    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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tg66577
New Poster

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

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.