'YOUR MAILBOX IS OUTDATED' Email Scam Phishes for Credentials
Yet another variant of what is essentially the same email scam is making the rounds. This time, it goes by the name "YOUR MAILBOX IS OUTDATED", named after the main bait sentence of the malicious email.
Scammers would send an email to victims, telling them their mailbox is outdated. If you never heard of a mailbox being "outdated" of all things, that's completely normal, it's just a weird choice of words on part of the scammers.
The scam tries to persuade victims that their inbox cannot receive incoming mail. To supposedly fix this fake issue, victims are expected to click a "Request New Version" button inside the malicious email. Clicking the button opens a phishing page, set up to look like a mail login page. Entering your credentials inside this phishing page will simply hand them over to the threat actors running the scam and will lead to your email being compromised and potentially taken over.
The full text of the scam email is as follows:
YOUR MAILBOX IS OUTDATED. INCOMING EMAILS ARE PENDING.
User:
Domain:
The server cannot retrieve your 15 incoming emails.
You are using the old and outdated version of the potaglasmalaysia.com mailbox.
Kindly use the button below to request and migrate the newest version of the webmail.
All your pending emails (15) will be retrieved in your inbox when you request for update.
Request New Version
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