Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams

The email messages below, which claim that you have exceeded your email account storage limit or quota, are phishing scams. The email messages are fakes and were not sent by your email account administrator or provider. The fake email messages were instead created by cyber criminals to trick you clicking on the links in them that go to a phishing website that steals email account username and password.

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Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams

Once the cyber-criminals behind the scam receive your email account username and password, they will use it to hijack your email account, send spam and other malicious email messages to your friends, family, and other persons, in an attempt to trick them into stealing their account usernames and passwords.

Remember, your email account will never be closed, deactivated, shut down, suspended, deleted because you have exceeded your storage limit or quota. What will happen is: you will not be able to receive new email messages. New messages will return or bounce back to the sender, letting them know that your mailbox is full. Also, in some cases, you may not be able to send email messages.

Therefore, never respond to any email message like the ones below, which threatens to shutdown, delete or suspend your account, and asks you to click on a link or visit a website. Go directly to your email account and sign-in from there instead. After signing in, you will be notified if your mailbox is full or you have exceeded your storage limit.

"Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit" Phishing Scams

Subject: Account Re-validate. (FINAL WARNING)

Thu 29/06/2017 18:49

From: "Mail.Service"

Dear user,

Your mailbox is almost full.

1969MB

2000 MB

Current size

Maximum size

Your Mailbox Has Exceeded It Quota/Limit, And You May Not Be Able To Send Or Receive New Mails Until You Re-Validate It.

To Re-Validate, Please Click : Click here to resolve this Issue to add more MB to your mailbox

Warning!!! if User warning, sorry to say you will lose your account permanently

Copyright © 2016 Email! Inc. All rights reserved.

Subject: Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit

Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator, you are currently running on 20.9GB,To re-validate your mailbox Clickhere: or copy this (website address) and paste in your browser to increase your mailbox size or you loose your account within 24 hours. System Administrator Center.


Subject: Your Email Account has exceeded limit quota

Your E-Mail account has exceeded Its storage limit as set by our Administrator, and you will not be able to receive new emails until you re-validate it.to re-validate Click-Here to renew your account.

NOTE: That failure to re-validate your email account will result to loss of your account and you will not be able to receive or send mails.


Dear account user,

We hereby announce to you that your email account has exceeded its storage limit. You will not be able to send and receive mails and your email account will be deleted from our server.to avoid this problem, you are advised to verify your email account by clicking on the link below.

Click here
Thank you.


Your Email Account has exceeded limit quota

We are sending this e-mail to inform you that your e-mail account has excedeed it's sending and receiving limit in the last 7 days. Due to this , your account was suspended in order to prevent unwanted spyware and bots using our customer's accounts.

In order to verify your e-mail and lift the suspenion limit, please verify your hotmail information on the link below:


Subject: Your Email Account has exceeded limit quota

Your Email Account has exceeded limit quota, click the link below and fill your email account information to upgrade.

https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheet/view form?formkey=dGJ uV2NtRktnYU 9tMFd2Qj RBdGUzbXc6MQ

We have send you this upgrade notification times without number, and you have refuse to upgrade your user, note that failure to upgrade this time, would result to termination of your user account.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Copyright © 2012 Webmail Helpdesk Center® Inc. All rights reserved.Copyright


Subject: Dear Webmail User

The assigned storage limit of your mailbox has been exceeded due to the high rate of spam/junk mails, and incoming mails are currently being rejected. For re-validation, click the below link and fill the form to increase your quota limit.

CLICK HERE

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March 7, 2020 at 8:51 AM by
Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams
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"Mail Update

Sat 3/7/2020 6:00 AM

From: "Admin" - marlene@twspeed.com.br

Dear,

Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit set by your administrator, and you may not be able to send or receive new mails until you re-validate. To re-validate please Click Here.

System Administrator"

Here is another scam.

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July 24, 2018 at 11:11 AM by
Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Madison, Alabama, United States

This is still going around:

"Dear: Outlook webmail user,

We hereby announce that your email account has exceeded its storage limit. You will be unable to send and receive mails and your email account will be deleted from our server. To avoid this problem, you are advised to verify your email account via the link below.

->Click Here

-><redacted>

Thank you.

The Outlook Team."

Delete

April 30, 2018 at 9:38 AM by
Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams
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Here is another scam:

"From: Microsoft.com TEAM <pragashht@hotmail.com>

Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 6:18:29 AM

Subject: Mailbox Storage Exceeded Limit UPGRADE NOW!

Server Message

Hello user,

Your mailbox quota is full

This may cause your mailbox to be terminated and you will no longer receive more emails

To continue using your mailbox, you are required to immediately

upgrade your mailbox to increase your capacity to 15 GB.

This service is free.

Upgrade mail quota here

Once the upgrade is complete, your email Box will work effectively.

Regards.

Email Administrator

This message is auto-generated from E-mail security server, and replies sent to this email can not be delivered. "

Delete

May 28, 2017 at 11:57 PM by
Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams
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Here is another scam:

"Final warning: Update your info@onlinethreatalerts.com account

Sat 27/05/2017 07:53

From: Mail Team

Warning update your email address

Dear,

Your mailbox has Exceeded limit and will be shutdown in 24Hours

Please visit the link Update Now to avoid the close down of your account

Sincerely,

Mail Active Directory Team"

Delete

September 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM by
Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Tukwila, Washington, United States

The best thing is they use 'loose' instead of lose and there instead of their.

I noticed this a lot in various scams. One was to 'bank of amrica' which went to a scam site.

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Verify urgent requests or unsolicited emails, messages or phone calls before you respond

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What if You Got Scammed?

Stop Contact With The Scammer

Hang up the phone. Do not reply to emails, messages, or letters that the scammer sends. Do not make any more payments to the scammer. Beware of additional scammers who may contact you claiming they can help you get your lost money back.

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Change Your Account Passwords

Update your bank, credit card, social media, and email account passwords to try to limit further unauthorized access. Make sure to choose strong passwords when changing account passwords.

Report The Scam

Reporting helps protect others. While agencies can’t always track down perpetrators of crimes against scammers, they can utilize the information gathered to record patterns of abuse which may lead to action being taken against a company or industry.

Report your issue to the following agencies based on the nature of the scam:

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How To Recognize a Phishing Scam

Scammers use email or text messages to try to steal your passwords, account numbers, or Social Security numbers. If they get that information, they could get access to your email, bank, or other accounts. Or they could sell your information to other scammers. Scammers launch thousands of phishing attacks like these every day — and they’re often successful.

Scammers often update their tactics to keep up with the latest news or trends, but here are some common tactics used in phishing emails or text messages:

Phishing emails and text messages often tell a story to trick you into clicking on a link or opening an attachment. You might get an unexpected email or text message that looks like it’s from a company you know or trust, like a bank or a credit card or utility company. Or maybe it’s from an online payment website or app. The message could be from a scammer, who might

  • say they’ve noticed some suspicious activity or log-in attempts — they haven’t
  • claim there’s a problem with your account or your payment information — there isn’t
  • say you need to confirm some personal or financial information — you don’t
  • include an invoice you don’t recognize — it’s fake
  • want you to click on a link to make a payment — but the link has malware
  • say you’re eligible to register for a government refund — it’s a scam
  • offer a coupon for free stuff — it’s not real

About Online Threat Alerts (OTA)

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By alerting the public, we have prevented a lot of online users from getting scammed or becoming victims of cybercrimes.

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Your Mailbox has Exceeded the Storage Limit Phishing Scams