Good eye Pete_Vit!
Just going to leave this here too for anyone who wants a refresher on spotting suspicious e-mails. Most important thing is not to click on any links in suspicious emails!
-Liz
Why would HN send you to a French site? Looks like phishing. (EDIT: there's also the writing style and weird capitalisation, etc.).
maratsade wrote:Why would HN send you to a French site? Looks like phishing.
indeed :smileyvery-happy: that's what made me suspicious - and I wanted to shine some light on this new phishing attempt.
most folks I know do not bother to hover over a link to check first where it's gonna take you. thanks for the sainity check.
Good eye Pete_Vit!
Just going to leave this here too for anyone who wants a refresher on spotting suspicious e-mails. Most important thing is not to click on any links in suspicious emails!
-Liz
You're right, most don't, and if you go to the page, it's a good fascimile of the login page, though I didn't study it in detail.
Pete_Vit wrote:
maratsade wrote:Why would HN send you to a French site? Looks like phishing.
indeed :smileyvery-happy: that's what made me suspicious - and I wanted to shine some light on this new phishing attempt.
most folks I know do not bother to hover over a link to check first where it's gonna take you. thanks for the sainity check.
wow ! scary it looks very good - maybe tech support will send out a warning email to all subscribers - just in case.
maratsade wrote:You're right, most don't, and if you go to the page, it's a good fascimile of the login page, though I didn't study it in detail.
Pete_Vit wrote:
maratsade wrote:Why would HN send you to a French site? Looks like phishing.
indeed :smileyvery-happy: that's what made me suspicious - and I wanted to shine some light on this new phishing attempt.
most folks I know do not bother to hover over a link to check first where it's gonna take you. thanks for the sainity check.
