"Your AOL Desktop Will be Discontinued in 7 Days" Email Scam

The Fake "Your AOL Desktop Will be Discontinued in 7 Days" Email

From: AOL. (Account Mgmt Team) - r.goodberry@sky.com

Sent: 30 January 2020 08:33

Subject: FINAL NOTICE: Your AOL Desktop will be discontinued in 7 days

Final AOL Alert:

Your AOL Desktop will be discontinued

Dear AOL Member ,

You will lose access to your current AOL Desktop software in 7 days. Please take action by selecting at least one option below:

In order to continue to access your AOL Mail account , you will need to confirm you accept the Terms of Service. We also need a few moments of your time to explain how we manage your data and provide you with some choices in relation to the processing of that data. CLICK HERE

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Thank you for being a valued customer.

Sincerely,

AOL Member Services

AOL users who have already received the phishing email message, and who have followed the instructions in it, are asked to change their AOL account passwords immediately before their accounts are hijacked by cybercriminals and used fraudulently.

AOL users should never click on a link to sign into their accounts, they should instead, go directly to https://www.aol.com and sign-in from there. They will be notified of important changes or alerts after signing in if there is any.

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