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fishing mail to github mail address

Posted: 27 Jan 2017, 12:36
by abma
I recently got some fishing mail with some Trojan attachment:

"Hey. I found your software is online. Can you write the code for my project? Terms of reference attached below.
The price shall discuss, if you can make. Answer please."

for the curious, did some other dev got such or a similar mail to his address?

attached was this: https://virustotal.com/de/file/2a5d4ad4 ... 485516593/

it seems they crawled the emailaddress from github.

Re: fishing mail to github mail address

Posted: 28 Jan 2017, 04:30
by Super Mario
I think you should contact GitHub about the phishing attempts.

Re: fishing mail to github mail address

Posted: 28 Jan 2017, 05:48
by abma
Super Mario wrote:I think you should contact GitHub about the phishing attempts.
IMO they can basicly do nothing against this... i'm just curious if others got such mails, too.

Re: fishing mail to github mail address

Posted: 28 Jan 2017, 21:01
by yuritch
I've got a very similar mail, too. If not exactly similar.