Friday, May 24, 2019

Phishing Email - Re : (New Report Linked) Summary User - Confirmation change password your account on

For the record, this is an Apple phishing email attempt that is recently going around and got caught in spam filters. 


From :"noreplay@apple.com"
  Subject :Re : (New Report Linked) Summary User - Confirmation change
 password your account on 5/24/2019 11:11:11 AM / Resumen de control de usuario


Contains a .dot attachment (which contains malware)



SPAM/ PHISHING LINKs;  



How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the apple.com site then forget it.

  3. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (downarrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing URLs at Google now 

If you have recieved this email take further action now by click these links

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/


Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

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