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"You have an Incoming Document from Adobe PDF"

Online users, if you have received the email below, which claims you have received an incoming document from Adobe PDF, please delete it. This is because the email is a phishing scam will steal your email account credentials, hijacked your accounts and use them fraudulently.

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The "You have an Incoming Document from Adobe PDF" Phishing Scam

From: Adobe Systems

Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:00 AM

Subject: You have an incoming document from Adobe PDF.

Attention User

You have a pending incoming document shared with you via Adobe (PDF Online) from one of your email contacts.

Click to view Adobe PDF Doc

Adobe Reader 9.0 makes it easy to create, store and share online documents, spreadsheets and presentations

Happy Adobe Sharing! - Adobe Systems Team

The link in the fake email goes to fake Adobe website that asks the visitors to sign-in with their email account credentials. But, any attempts to sign-in will result in the visitors' email account credentials being sent to the cybercriminals behind the scam.

Online users who have already been tricked are asked to change their email account password immediately before their accounts hijacked. For those whose accounts have already been hijacked, are asked to use their email providers' "Forget Password" option to regain access to their accounts.

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