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Phishing Mails (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are "lemmy.world Security Team", telling that they will "disconnect" your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like.

~Lemmy World Team.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why would they target Lemmy users?

Your typical Lemming (for lack of a better term) is not technologically inept and would generally not fall for a phishing scam. They'd earn a lot more money from targeting Redditors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

software devs and other highly technical IT roles fail phishing tests at my company

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your typical Lemming (for lack of a better term)

idk i like "lemming"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're telling me I'm not a lemon?

[โ€“] Honytawk 8 points 1 year ago

Probably overreach of an automated system

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Attention! u/spez demands that you suckle upon his prostate like a thirsty little pig!

"OMG guys, ^ THIS!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Your typical Lemming (for lack of a better term)

That's the right term

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing it's sent to anyone with a custom domain, rather than lemmy specifically.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aren't people who use lemmy already or had used reddit I mean lemmy was brought out as an alternative to reddit which many people on reddit flocked to when spezy wezy started doing his you-know-wut

Plus I'm sure there's alot of people here whom won't be as informed about phishing emails

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's more like there's a technical barrier for using Lemmy (or any fediverse social media for that matter) and for actually giving a shit about Reddit's API policy.

There's a tendency for more tech-saavy people going to Lemmy.