kamiya@n-messcud.jp SAM.gov Entity Registration Scam Email

I’m an employee working in the company using the email address kamiya@n-messcud.jp.
Please stop sending smears.
We didn’t hacked the gov. We have been receiving thousands and thousands smear emails every single day. We don’t even know what’s going on. We’ve tried to contact the gov, but they completely shut the system down. I hope you could understand this situation.

Not a Scam. It was a glitch
Federal contractors and grant recipients got a scare Wednesday morning after waking up to a strange email claiming to have changed critical information about their government registration. The fright was further compounded by an unscheduled website outage preventing users from checking to ensure their information was correct.
According to the General Services Administration, the email was caused by a system bug and the outage was unrelated.
Users who manage their organization’s SAM.gov account reported getting an email shortly after 12 a.m. Wednesday stating that a user going by kamiya@n-messcud.jp changed information on their SAM registration—the reference number used to identify all organizations doing business with the government, including contracts and grants.

Thanks for the info!

On the email that we received it was sent from donotreply@sam.gov and points to https://www.fsd.gov (see below)

- Forwarded Message -
Subject: SAM.gov Someone updated the entity registration for {{LBN}}
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 06:05:22 -0500 (EST)
From: donotreply@sam.gov
To: XXXXXXX

kamiya@n-messcud.jp updated the SAM.gov entity registration for {{LBN}}, Unique Entity ID {{UEI}}, in SAM.gov on 2023-03-07.
You are receiving this email because you are an Entity Administrator for this entity in SAM.gov.
kamiya@n-messcud.jp identified themselves as not being an employee, officer, or board member of {{LBN}}, and listed contractual agreement dates with this entity of {{CREATED_DATE}} to {{EXPIRATION_DATE}}.
kamiya@n-messcud.jp also listed {{POC}} as the authorized point of contact for {{LBN}}, Unique Entity ID {{UEI}}.
If you think this message has been received in error, please contact the https://www.fsd.gov
This email was sent from SAM.gov

oh c**p. I responded by sending a question to the email address and clicked on the Federal help desk button. Should I be worried about my system getting hacked or infected?

don't worry, it is not a hack but was a glitch. You can find information confirming this on US government websites, eg https://www.nextgov.com/technology-news/2023/03/gsa-odd-email-about-changes-sam-registration-info-was-glitch-not-hack/383746/
The link to the federal help desk was a real link, and the SAM e-mail address was a real e-mail address. No idea about the JP e-mail address, but mailing an e-mail address should not allow any hacker access to your computer.

Just got this one a moment ago. Looks strange so searched for the email address in google. Thanks for the heads up.