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SoKe's avatar
SoKe
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Phishing

Hello! I received an email from the correct Dropbox address telling me I had deleted a lot of files but can retrieve them within a month by clicking “here”. Looks suspicious, I did not do anything special lately, and I think this is phishing mail… but it seems genuine. Did anybody else receive that email?
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    SoKe wrote:
    I received an email from the correct Dropbox address telling me I had deleted a lot of files but can retrieve them within a month by clicking “here”. Looks suspicious ...

    Hover your cursor (DO NOT CLICK) over the "here" button in the email and see what URL it will open.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago
    SoKe wrote:
    I received an email from the correct Dropbox address telling me I had deleted a lot of files but can retrieve them within a month by clicking “here”. Looks suspicious ...

    Hover your cursor (DO NOT CLICK) over the "here" button in the email and see what URL it will open.

    • SoKe's avatar
      SoKe
      Explorer | Level 4
      2 years ago

      Thank you for your advice. It seems to be a genuine Dropbox email. I think a lot of files were deleted during my cleaning of the Amazon Music files on Itunes... difficult to know exactly what is behind since there are thousands of weird files. So I think the Dropbox warning was true but nothing to do after all 🙂 

      thank you anyway!

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