Thursday, May 28, 2026

Pintas and Mullins Law Firm Phishing Email with subject You May Be Eligible for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund – Find Out Now


For the record, this is a Pintas and Mullins Law Firm 
phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject Information about your online security and body "You May Be Eligible for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund – Find Out Now"

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


From: WTC-Settlements.com <alert@northyism.com>

Subject: You May Be Eligible for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund – Find Out Now










Dangerous Phishing Link

1. https://northyism.com/c/xxxxx

Note this is using established telecommunications platform, which will not be flagged.

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 let's 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 source domain, like 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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