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Phishing email about full mailbox

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9 years 11 months ago #51836 by RobynLS
Phishing email about full mailbox was created by RobynLS
My club president received the following e-mail, supposedly from server@toastmastersclubs.org. It looks like a phishing attack to me. The ALLOCATE MORE DATA line was a link. Unfortunately, he did click on that, but he stopped when it asked him to log in to something. He then forwarded it to me to ask about it. Has anyone else seen anything like this, and do I need to worry?

From: Toastmasters Club 1177603 on behalf of Mail Team <server@toastmastersclubs.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Subject: Your mailbox usage is 85% full
To: "president-1177603@toastmastersclubs.org"


Hi president-1177603@toastmastersclubs.org

You are about exceeding your free data volume.

Avoid mail subscrition suspention, and email retrival malfunction, by following below reference

ALLOCATE MORE DATA TO [president-1177603@toastmastersclubs.org]

We will not be responsible for any subscrition suspention or email retrival malfunction if after this warning no response from you.

Mail Team


Here is the message I sent out to my fellow club members about it. I hope this makes sense.

Hello fellow Toastmasters,

Please be very careful if you get an email like the one below that went to Ben about his Toastmasters email box being almost full. Note that I removed the links before sending this.

Please DO NOT click on the link. You should just delete the message. Before doing that, if you're using gmail, please report it to Google as spam by clicking on the More drop-down arrow on the upper right side of the email's header line (next to the reply icon) and then clicking on Report Spam. Delete it right after that.

It looks totally bogus and probably dangerous. My gmail is showing me a banner that says "Be careful with this message. Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information." I think I heard something about this as a scam recently, too. Furthermore, the grammar and spelling are very bad, which is never a good sign

I don't believe we can have a full mailbox on these accounts. All they are doing is receiving and forwarding messages to the "real" account you have specified. There is no reason to keep them in the toastmasters email account.

Best regards,
Robyn

Robyn Seaton, VPM and webmaster
Agua Fria Toastmasters Club #1776603
Goodyear, Arizona, USA
aguafria.toastmastersclubs.org
Agua Fria Toastmasters Club #1177603
Avondale, Arizona
aguafria.toastmastersclubs.org
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9 years 11 months ago #51837 by Brian
Replied by Brian on topic Phishing email about full mailbox
The email is just more spam.

We do not filter the email to the officers as diligently as we do for the group email lists. You have the option of black listing that email address in the admin console.
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9 years 11 months ago #51838 by RobynLS
Replied by RobynLS on topic Phishing email about full mailbox
Hi Brian,

Thanks for your quick response.

The scary things is that it says it came from the "Mail Team" at server@toastmastersclubs.org. I don't want to blacklist our server address, so I guess we'll just have to be vigilant.

Am I correct that you aren't storing any emails anywhere, but just forwarding them, so that having a full mailbox for a toastmastersclubs account is impossible?

Regards
Robyn
Agua Fria Toastmasters Club #1177603
Avondale, Arizona
aguafria.toastmastersclubs.org
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9 years 11 months ago - 9 years 11 months ago #51839 by SteveTheTechie
Replied by SteveTheTechie on topic Phishing email about full mailbox
Ok, I think I need to jump in here and clear something up...

All of the emails will appear to come from the FreeToastHost server by design. That is so that there is a consistent from address that corporate clubs can whitelist in their spam filters.

Here is how to determine what address you should black list: Click reply on the email, but do *not* click send. The email address that shows up in the To: box is the email address that should be blacklisted. (It will be different than the From address. Cancel the reply once you get the correct email address to blacklist.)
Last edit: 9 years 11 months ago by SteveTheTechie.
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