  
| Author: | CCBricks  | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 21:12 | | Subject: | Re: WARNING! Login from new device phishing emai | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Well, I'll be one of the first to say that I did click the link. I noticed
the .com.co and knew something wasn't right. I'm not happy
with myself, but I immediately went in and changed the password...three times.
I'm going to say that I got lucky (extremely) and caught it at the right
time.
I did a download of my inventory with BrickStore to compare totals. This is what
I found: the total number of items (parts) is off by 4 and the dollar amount
is off by $2.56. This is possibly due to a couple of lots that I have retained
that are not zeroed out. I also looked at the "newest items" to see
if any were added, which I can confirm nothing was added. I also verified the
lot totals were correct (main store and stock rooms).
I strongly suggest every seller download BrickStore and performing a back up,
especially each day, or after sales. I usually do one a day. It is super easy
to "jump the gun" as I did, and it caught me off guard.
Hopefully BrickLink will post a banner on the main page to warn EVERY user about
this. As of this post, I didn't see anything, so BL should jump on the ball,
like yesterday.
Brian
In Problem, chetzler writes:
| | I had a couple of these this in my inbox this morning. They looked completely
legitimate. I did login in to BL from my work computer yesterday. When I have
logged in from work before, I have never gotten an email like this, but I thought
that maybe it was a new security feature.
Anyway, with a very official looking email in hand, I clicked the suggested logout
from all devices link and had just about entered my credentials in the new window
to log back in when I noticed two minor things that seemed just a bit off. I
won’t mention those things in case the fraudsters are reading. I looked at the
URL and it was very close to BrickLink’s (it was not the .net one that was mentioned
before). Needless to say, I immediately changed my PW and reenabled the one-time
PIN (I had turned it off because I was being repeatedly prompted for a new PIN
over very short time spans even when I hadn’t logged out). I’ll also be downloading
my inventory
BE DILIGENT! I’m a pretty suspicious person when it comes to online activity,
but, in my groggy state when I woke up this morning, I almost fell for a phishing
scheme presented as a very authentic looking email.
I don’t know why BrickLink has suddenly become such a juicy target. These people
have no hope of accessing any of my monetary accounts. I assume the goal is
to gain access to a legitimate shop so they can list high-dollar items to scam
other members.
I don’t envy the task that management has ahead of them, but they need to take
some substantive action soon. This is not a primary income stream for me, so
at some point, when all the gummy spam, phishing attempts, and slow helpdesk
response times become too much, I may simply close my store for a while. I don’t
need the extra headache of worrying about online security for a part-time job.
Had I fallen victim to this phishing attempt, I’m really not sure how much effort
I would have put into trying to recover my account. BrickLink just feels like
a dicier selling proposition lately.
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