Your Aweber account has been flagged‏ - Is this a Scam Email ?

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Posted: 13 years ago 34 replies

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Is this a valid Account Flagged email? or a spam email?/

Reason I suspect it is spam,
It has been sent to Another email address of mine, Not my aweber email connected account. so it is being sent to 'another' account of mine, which I dont know how they found.

Aweber Security Department service@mail.com Your Aweber account has been flagged
Here at Aweber we take our customers security seriously.

According to our daily reports we believe that someone with a different IP was trying to access your account without a valid permission.

our security system has detected an unusual activities on your account earlier,

for your own security we flagged this case to be high risk.

In order to solve this problem and establish a new secure environment on your account,

please follow the instructions in our secure hosted web form through the link below

http://www.awebercomplaint.com/users/reset_aff_password.htm?ra9xxxxxxxx8haapqhhh&email=rapstrap@hotmail.co.uk&action=rese tpassword

we usually give a maximum of 7 days to our customers to respond to our security warnings

if no action will be taken from your side in the next 7 days your account will be temporary suspended for future investigation.

if you believe you are receiving this message by mistake please contact our account security department
for more information regarding this case

AWeber Communications, Inc
Account Security Department
Mike T
MikeT@Aweber.com

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David Keith 13 years ago

i use aweber, but have never had any issue like this with them in 15+ years. i would call them.

if this is some sort of scam you could have a keylogger installed on your cpu already. i would doubt that, but they do know or at least guessed you have an aweber account.
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JennSpencerIM 13 years ago

I would go directly to Aweber and ask about it instead of clicking on ANY links in the email...especially if its not the email address you have on file with them. Be careful!
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JustFelix 13 years ago

Scam, don't get tricked.
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Nick Bykov Banned 13 years ago

100% scam. The link leads to a phishing website. They are trying to obtain your Aweber login details and steal your lists.
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- Hamida Harland 13 years ago
  
  Just got the exact same email - must admit I thought it looked legit, but I'd seen this thread earlier today so didn't click on the link. I logged straight into my Aweber account and all is well there. I'd love to know how they got my Aweber email address though.
  
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Margo Tuul 13 years ago

Yeah it's a scam. I got this email about my aweber account what is closed more than 2 years now...
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xxxJamesxxx 13 years ago

I've had a few in the last few days and within a few seconds I knew it was a scam

The trick is on how to find out if these emails are scams is to check the urls.

You'll find they won't even lead back to the main site but a domain similar to the site they're mimicking

They almost got me with Paypal a few years back but I instantly realised something was up and went back to Paypal through a legit url and instantly changed my password

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niffybranco 13 years ago

Just got the same email, I always checkout and type in the homepage url of the site the email address goes to in this case it was awebercomplaints.com which is obviously a scam site.
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brainworker 13 years ago

Got similar email. Clicked on the link and gave many fake account info.
Good luck scammer!
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- David Keith 13 years ago
  
  i email aweber about this. its probably a good idea if a few others do as well so they get the idea that there really is a serious phishing issue going on against their site.
  
  who knows how big it is.
  
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WholesalerJoe 13 years ago

I got the same on dormant account.... Pretty sure Aweber is hacked
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BrandenNaka 13 years ago

I got the same email. I contacted AWeber and they said they DO NOT own the domain "Awebercomplaint.com" but that they were working on getting that site shut down immediately.

The email had red flags from the beginning...terrible grammar, terrible sentence structure and most importantly, the domain wasn't even pointed toward "aweber.com".

Be careful!
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Gary McCaffrey 13 years ago

I got this and thought it looked suspect. So I checked the whois on the domain, different servers from aweber, just forwarded it to abuse{AT}aweber.com

I'm sure quite a few have been duped by it.
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- Itachi 13 years ago
  
  damn, these guys are doing more vicious tactics all the time..
  
  The other day i saw something similar, and to be honest im still not sure yet if it was true or fake but i deleted it because it was asking for credit card details "supposedly" from VISA.com , nothing like support.visa.com or something .. got to be careful with those stuff, they were basically saying there was a phishing attempt on my card blabla things like that, and the page looked LEGIT, still i deleted it because they were asking for credit card details in an email, this could not possibly be true, but i must say even today i'm still wondering what this email was...now that i think about it .:confused:
  
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  angela99 13 years ago
  
  Definitely a scam.
  
  I queried aweber.
  
  They're investigating; trying to get the domain shut down, and are also trying to discover who's behind the phishing...
  
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Brian Alaway 13 years ago

One method for defeating these types of scam is to register with a one-off email address. Create a brand new email address and don't ever use it for anything else. This will work for many accounts like Facebook not just Aweber. Unless the vendor gets hacked, possible but not easy and scammers/spammers usually look for easy, your email address will stay "out of circulation". Which means scammers/spammers will send these to one of your "in circulation" email addresses and you'll know immediately that it's a scam.
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celente

13 years ago

I get about 18 of those message and fake Gmail ones a day trying to get people usernames and passwords.

Gets a little tiresome, but sometimes I have fun with these scammer and actaully reply back.... and yes, they get a mouthful! lol. Probably not the right thing to do, but by george it feels good to do it. LOL.

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craigc1980

13 years ago

I got this same thing this morning.

I wonder how the scammers got my email in the first place.

You don't think it was when Aweber got hacked months back do you.

Maybe.

Craig

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Itachi

13 years ago

Originally Posted by craigc1980

I got this same thing this morning.

I wonder how the scammers got my email in the first place.

You don't think it was when Aweber got hacked months back do you.

Maybe.

Craig

Maybe some guys here on the WF that you subbed to... this would'nt surprise me since they obviously target IM'ers

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craigc1980 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Itachi

Maybe some guys here on the WF that you subbed to... this would'nt surprise me since they obviously target IM'ers

Yea you just never do know but I am thinking since it has hit my whole list that it was a compromise on Awbers part some months back
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tkulzer

13 years ago

This is definitely a scam.

We are aware of the issue and working to get those sites
taken down by the appropriate authorities.

NEVER enter your AWeber account information into any
website other than aweber.com

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BloggingPro

13 years ago

Originally Posted by tkulzer

This is why I love the internet, mainly webmaster forums. So badass the guy who runs Aweber came here to post.

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pvn21 13 years ago

I got this too. Promptly marked it as spam. The funny thing is I dont even have an Aweber account.
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renu

13 years ago

Originally Posted by tkulzer

Got the same email too...

And I think I know where they got the info...

Several legitimate websites that provided users the ability
to validate their aweber accounts got hacked.

Among those websites was Chuck Mullaney's UltraSwaps
service a while ago.

Anyways, the email is a scam... and it leads to a URL called
awebercomplaint dot com which is a big red flag for me at least.

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SKWeaver 13 years ago

It's a total scam. Reads poorly, bad grammar = sure sign it was written by a scammer (or someone who floated over here on a door -- no offense to legal residents who arrived in that manner).
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Martin Salter 13 years ago

Just got one this morning too. Using the URL of awebercomplaints.com

Hope Tom can get the site shut down soon. Will be a shame if a few of these get access to some aweber lists, it could spiral from there.

Damn these people are annoying
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Targeted Traffic 13 years ago

The body of the email itself screams SCAM.
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- RandySeet 13 years ago
  
  I received similar email today with a subject title:
  [Case AW-PX238AE] Your AWeber account has been flagged.
  
  Immediately I email Aweber for inquire and most probably this email is not sent by them.
  
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  PhilipT 13 years ago
  
  Yes the solution is not to click on any link but simply contact AWeber in the usual way and check it out. This is undoubtedly a scam. I had something similar recently.
  
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aandersen 13 years ago

Thanks for the heads up guys.

I got it too but my spam filter caught it first. If I didn't see this thread I wouldn't have known about it.

I just sent a "Caveat Lector" email to some non-techy clients letting the know of the threat and urging them NOT to click that damn link... Hopefully none have.
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thetis 13 years ago

Got the same email and I don't even have an Aweber account yet!!
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- jeremiahv 13 years ago
  
  I was checking my email then suddenly, I receive a message like this. I know it was a scam email, because I'm not registered member of aweber.
  
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  rhinocl 13 years ago
  
  Look at the hotmail part of the link. Not reasonable to expect AWebber to process changes through a hotmail email account. But don't expect every scam to have a tip off this obvious.
  
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DarioMontesdeOca 13 years ago

Thanks for sharing this. Was just about to click on that link in the email I received but decided to do a Google search for that domain.

To all who are reading this, mark that email as SPAM and delete it.

Another phony email I've seen a few months ago was the "USPS Postal Office" losing your package. Delete that one too. My uncle clicked the link in that one and had to get his entire computer rebooted due to Trojan virus.
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Your Aweber account has been flagged‏ - Is this a Scam Email ?

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