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Handley_Page

Handley_Page

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I got this in this evening's e-mail:


Thanks for emailing Literotica,

We are protecting ourselves from receiving junk mail. Please read below and follow the instructions if you want your mail to get through:

Please click the link below to complete the verification process.
You have to do this only once.

[there then followed a very long address starting out:
http://www.spamarrest.com/ ]

You are receiving this message in response to your email to Literotica, a Spam Arrest customer.
Spam Arrest requests that senders verify themselves before their email is delivered.
When you click the above link, you will be taken to a page with a graphic on it. Simply read the word in the graphic, type it into the form, accept the Sender Agreement, and you're verified.
You have to do this only once per Spam Arrest customer.

We then had a load of bumf I wot not of, and:

X-PolicySMART: 1837588
X-SPAM-Status: NO, 2.7 / 5.0 DCC [0.0] BAYES [0%]
X-SPAM-Summary: DCC=0.0,REFERENCES=-0.2,LONGURLPART=0.2,EXTRATYPE=0.2,PORNURL=1.5,WORDEROTIC=1.0
X-Virus-Status: Scanned by VirusSMART (c)
X-FuseMail-Origin: MAIL=15859531
X-Delivered-To: webmaster@literotica.com
X-FuseWhitelist: Yes (spamlistid: 42074045)
X-FuseBlacklist: No

Now we come to the bit that puzzles me. My e-mail address was right, but I do not recall sending any communication to the "Webmaster" [who?].
So the question is
What's all this about - before I reply ?
 
Really, HP? You've never received a phishing email before? The workings of faked emails get our address is beyond me but I know if it sounds fishy, it is phishy. Don't open links, don't respond to email.
 
Handley_Page said:
Now we come to the bit that puzzles me. My e-mail address was right, but I do not recall sending any communication to the "Webmaster" [who?].
So the question is
What's all this about - before I reply ?
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If you used the "Contact Us" link, or other form on the site, to contact Laurel or Manu, then you'll get one of those SpamArrest e-mails. If you haven't tried to contact Laurel or Manu, then it is possible your e-mail address has been hijacked and you need to look into that -- it is unlikely that Literotica is the only contact being spammed with your e-mail address.
 
If you didn't send an email to Lit via one of the "contact the webmaster" links, then it probably is phishing. If you hover over the link to see the actual address, it probably doesn't go anywhere near Spamarrest.

That does look exactly like the spamarrest response you get when sending an email to Lit for the first time, though.

Freddy got something similar a while back, except it was a copy of the password reset email.

Looks like people are copying official emails from Lit and pointing the links to different locations in a targeted phishing scam. They're probably obtaining the email address by sending out feedback emails and harvesting from the authors who respond.

EDIT: Your email account getting hijacked is a possibility as well. Didn't think about it since someone tried to phish Freddie with this method.
 
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Paranoid me suggests whipping up a new password for that mail account, just to be extra safe.
 
Blind_Justice said:
Paranoid me suggests whipping up a new password for that mail account, just to be extra safe.
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Interesting.
Now me? I'm a complete dimmie with this sort of thing.
That mail account has taken me ages to sort out (it's my new ISP) and I have a lot of trouble remembering passwords for this and that; it's took ages to persuade all my contacts that I had a new email (E-bay, paypal, Amazon, etc.. I'm sure you get the idea).
I'll see if I can find a way to change the password as you suggest [real soon]

Thanks all.
 
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