Email Fraud Alert received from: Professor
I recently received an email with this subject line: Creative Cloud Serivce Purchase and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for signing up for Adobe Creative Cloud Service.
Attached is your copy of the invoice.
Thank you for your purchase.
Thank you,
The Adobe Team
Adobe Creative Cloud Service
The above email was sent by “Adobe Billing” from this email address: Billinghyfb@adobe.com
I, Professor, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Adobe Billing”:
Attached to this email was a Word Document named Adobe Invoice.doc – if this was a real invoice I assume that it would have some unique number as the title. When I opened the document I got the following warning: “This document contains macros. Macros may contain viruses. Execution of macros is disabled due to the current macro security setting in Tools – Options – LibreOffice – Security. Therefore, some functionality may not be available.” Libre Office is installed on my Linux Distro so I felt pretty safe opening the document.