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question everything

(47,474 posts)
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 01:54 PM Sep 2021

Instinctively I know this is a scam but want to run this here

I am using MacMail with Comcast.

This morning I received two emails form

NEW TERNS

You are still using the old Webmail security settings.

Please use the maintenance portal below to switch and automatically enable your new Webmail settings to avoid service interruption and delays in outgoing/incoming mails.

sign in (a link which of course I ignore)

Do not ignore: To avoid account timing out within 24hrs.
Thanks for using.
Copyright © 2021 Webmail.


At the bottom there are the official logos of Comcast and Xfinity

I have no idea what a Webmail is

And, now, as I let the mouse hover over the sender there is jpfcm@version.net

And a couple of hours later form renewman6@verison.net

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Instinctively I know this is a scam but want to run this here (Original Post) question everything Sep 2021 OP
scam.. Never use an email link padfun Sep 2021 #1
Thanks. Yes, after a few thoughts I deleted question everything Sep 2021 #9
NEWMAN! CurtEastPoint Sep 2021 #2
Any email that threatens to shut down (or time-out) your account in 24 hours is trying to scare you Binkie The Clown Sep 2021 #3
Thanks. Deleted, also from the trash folder question everything Sep 2021 #8
I got scammed years ago. They had a mirror site that looked just like Apple or something. captain queeg Sep 2021 #4
I wonder who Comcast would feel about using their logo question everything Sep 2021 #6
Scam dickthegrouch Sep 2021 #5
Thanks, I will question everything Sep 2021 #7
I got a real beauty of one jmowreader Sep 2021 #10
I got the same one! Dale in Laurel MD Sep 2021 #11
I got one like that too. padfun Sep 2021 #12
Not using coke at the same time? question everything Sep 2021 #14
Pretty sure Verizon knows how to spell verison. Xoan Sep 2021 #13

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
3. Any email that threatens to shut down (or time-out) your account in 24 hours is trying to scare you
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 01:59 PM
Sep 2021

into believing it. Don't.

captain queeg

(10,184 posts)
4. I got scammed years ago. They had a mirror site that looked just like Apple or something.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:03 PM
Sep 2021

Don’t remember now exactly but I’m real careful nowadays.

question everything

(47,474 posts)
6. I wonder who Comcast would feel about using their logo
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:17 PM
Sep 2021

I suppose it is one of those things that they just shrug.

I never click on a link. I will go to the official site.

dickthegrouch

(3,172 posts)
5. Scam
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:16 PM
Sep 2021

There must be some form of dynamic feedback mechanism too if the moused over link is changing. It’s pure toxicity. Run your antivirus after deleting the mail.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
10. I got a real beauty of one
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:43 PM
Sep 2021

The guy said he had a video captured from my webcam of me masturbating in front of my computer while watching porn and if I didn’t send him over $1000 he would send the video to my wife.

Well…since I don’t have a webcam, don’t watch porn, don’t masturbate in front of my computer and am not married, I thought deleting the scam email was safe.

Dale in Laurel MD

(698 posts)
11. I got the same one!
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:53 PM
Sep 2021

But he must have thought I was really well off -- he wanted something like $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. He didn't get that either. But I guess enough guys lead "interesting" lives that he does collect now and then.

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