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Beware of "Security Alert for your Linked Profile" Scam

Updated: April 25, 2018 2018-04-25T04:15:18 -
Posted: April 12, 2018 2018-04-12T18:14:07
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Online users who have received the fake the "Security Alert for your Linked Profile" email below, which claims that a sign-in attempt was blocked for their linked profile, are asked not to follow the instructions in the email. This is because the email is a scam that has links that go to phishing or fake websites that steal account, personal and financial information.

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The "Security Alert for your Linked Profile" Scam

From: Reminder <fxzyf@mail2gloria.com>

Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:44 AM

Subject: Security alert for your linked profile

Your profile is listed as the recovery email for @sbcglobal.net. Don't recognize this account? click here.

Sign-in attempt was blocked for your linked account

@sbcglobal.net

Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your profile.

CHECK ACTIVITY

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your profile and services.

© 2018 sbcglobal.net., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

Online users who have been tricked by the phishing email are asked to change their passwords and check their accounts for discrepancies.

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Oct 24, 2018 at 10:04 AM by an anonymous user from León, Guanajuato, Mexico
I have been receiving several email for the past weeks. I have not open them since they arrive in my Junk-email folder and they look suspiscious since these warn me of a security alert in an account that I do not have linked to Google.

The message comes from: "Support", and the heading reads: "(The name shown in my email account) Security alert for your profile #(an a number here)".

Then in the main scroll I can read: "Your account is listed as te recovery email (my email account here, which is the same in which I'm getting this email). Don't recognize..." and don't know what else since I have not oppened any of this emails.

It's been many of them, daily.
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Oct 16, 2018 at 7:13 AM by an anonymous user from Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Received today from "Support derbahnsteig@jugend-wacht.de

same message as above.
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Aug 2, 2018 at 5:27 AM by an anonymous user from Stephens City, Virginia, United States
got it today.. from fseeengineering

"Your profile is listed as the recovery email for *******s@live.com. Don't recognize this profile? click here.

Sign-in attempt was blocked for your profile
*********@live.com
Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account.

CHECK ACTIVITY

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your account and services.
© 2018 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA"
delete
Jul 20, 2018 at 12:08 AM by an anonymous user from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
SAME BULLS**T SCAM.. thanks for your help having posted much the same scam layout.

"Your profile is listed as the recovery email for xxxxxx@bigpond.net.au. Don't recognize this account? click here.

Sign-in attempt was blocked for your profile
xxxxxx@bigpond.net.au
Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your profile.

CHECK ACTIVITY

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your account and services.
© 2018 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
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Jul 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM by an anonymous user from Linglestown, Pennsylvania, United States
Got email:

"Says from administrator

I knew that this was a scam I was looking for where the email address under administrator and it says deepak.singhal@ge.com

Your account is listed as the recovery email for drdonahoo@comcast.net. Don't recognize this profile? click here.

Sign-in attempt was blocked for your account

Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your profile.

CHECK ACTIVITY

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your profile and services.
© 2018 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA"
delete
Jul 13, 2018 at 9:05 AM by an anonymous user from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States
So goddamn tired of these scammers. Don’t even have LinkedIn duh there’s my clue
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Jul 11, 2018 at 7:28 PM by an anonymous user from La Mirada, California, United States
hxxp://restauracjaumikolajca.pl /multiprocessorww.html

The actual link you get when you click on it
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Jun 7, 2018 at 6:07 AM by an anonymous user from Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
a linker recovery account for somewhere in that ce**it labelled america, sorry, wrong place for me to follow that one.
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May 27, 2018 at 3:16 PM by an anonymous user from Gadsden, Alabama, United States
They knew that my email address is listed as a recovery email for another account, and that right there made me almost fall for it. I'm glad I looked at all of the fine print at the bottom of the phony alert and noticed how odd much of it was.
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Apr 14, 2018 at 1:50 PM by an anonymous user from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
I've received numerous emails in this same vein. They come from "Account Support", "Administrator", "Apple Support", etc. and they all claim that my mac.com account is involved.

At the bottom, it claims to come from .mac and has the SAME 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA address.

I don't have a hotmail, gmail or sbcglobal email. Putting the cursor above the sender shows these are coming from Germany, Italy, France, the UK, etc. This rash of emails started about a month ago.
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Apr 12, 2018 at 6:18 PM by info
Here is another scam:

"From: Support <fued@beaconcontainer.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:14:05 AM
Subject: Security alert for your account

Your account is listed as the recovery email for. Don't recognize this profile? click here.

Sign-in attempt was blocked for your linked profile

Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account.

CHECK ACTIVITY

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your account and services.
© 2018 hotmail.com., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA"
delete
- May 1, 2018 at 11:39 AM by an anonymous user from Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  Just received this one today but deleted it before I could forward... Sorry
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