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Monday, February 19, 2024

Costco Phishing Email with subject Confirmation Needed, you have been selected

For the record, this is a Costco phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject line "Re: Confirmation Needed, you have been selected". 

What to do?  
Report them, goto bottom of page. 


From : Costco <no-reply@bloischambord.com>

Subject
 :  Re: Confirmation Needed, you have been selected







PHISHING LINKs;

1. http://youction.net/?xxxx


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  company's website then forget it.
  3. The best way is to 

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 (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing to Google

If you have received this email, take further action by

  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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