Email Fraud Alert received from: Paul
I recently received an email with this subject line: Please confirm your e-mail identity. 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:
We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your e-mail account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will now be taken to confirm your e-mail identity.
Please click here to confirm your e-mail account.
If we do no receive the appropriate account verification within 12 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended.
The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.
Thank you for using our services!
Please note: To ensure the privacy and security of your e-mail account, we will periodically ask you to confirm your identity.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired, we invite you to contact us though an IP-Relay service.
Email reference id: [#a08-jzvuwmbqgz#]_[#f9f7db08128345698a5bdcf45dc7574c#]
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The above email was sent by “Webmail Services” from this email address: confirm@email.com
I, Paul, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Webmail Services”:
I don’t have an .email.com e-mail address.
This looks like one of those phishing support emails where people confirm a live and active email address.