This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like.
~Lemmy World Team.
It’s weird that they target Lemmy, what would they get? Access to account that shitposts? Only important accounts are admin, even communities are small here
My guess is they did not. It doesn’t appear to be targeting Lemmy, it’s just a generic spam email.
Note the email was received at the [email protected] address. The email most likely got the [email protected] email address, took the domain from it, lemmy.world, and put this in their spam generator. The email doesn’t even make sense, because it says they need to install an app for their mail but it’s a custom domain.
If you imagine most of the emails on their spam list are @gmail.com or @outlook.com, etc, then the email looks like it is coming from the gmail.com security team or the outlook.com security team. The email no longer makes sense when you have a custom domain.
I see. That makes perfect sense.
It’s not targeted at Lemmy. This phishing mail simply assumes that lemmy.world is an email provider, and that [email protected] is a registered email account there.
Vote manipulation?
Loads of instances don’t require an email to sign up so that doesn’t make any sense.
I guess we’ve made it mainstream if that’s a consideration