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Phishing scam report
1 min readJul 3
Hello everyone,
Last night the Forum underwent a phishing attack. You may have received a message claiming to be from a Forum Administrator, and urging you to click on a link. Please do not click on the link.
In response to the attack we have:
Thanks all,
Toby - for the EA Forum Team.
Thanks for the notice! Did you also notify affected users immediately? (I wasn't affected; didn't receive a scam message.) That seems like the first thing to do, lest links be clicked. Telling people now to not click on the link is a bit late.
Hey Richard - this is as immediate as it gets (i.e, it was sent once we'd removed the accounts, deleted their messages etc...)
Glad to hear not everyone was affected!
I've responded to incidents before and the procedure was to address the immediate problem, then prevent it from happening again. When your software sends out phishing mail, the immediate problem is that people will click the link and potentially be harmed by what is behind it. So you first send out something telling people to not click the link. Then you can delete accounts etc. At least that's how I would do it.