Spam?

Feedback & ideas
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Hello,
I received an email this morning ostensibly from “zehn martho via Software AG Tech Community & Forums” notifications@techcommunity.discoursemail.com

Subject: [Software AG Tech Community & Forums] UPDATE GOOD SELLER AND BINE LEGIT FROM Whatap: +1(218)3841535

Message text seems to be offering counterfeit banknotes, passports, ID cards, etc. Just wondering if these are new SAG offerings :wink:, or if the Tech Community email server has been hacked? Or spoofed?

George

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@George, can you post a screenshot of the email, after masking your personal information?

@toni.petrov, @borislav.hristov, @marielavd - alarm bells?

KM

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I’ll give it a shot. Here is a snap shot of my email, hopefully with my address obliterated… Anything else I can do, let me know.

Thanks

SAGTech_Spam
SAGTech_Spam1199×687 59.4 KB

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I hoped to see the full header as well, to see the source SMTP - can you post that too?
I had tagged our forum team and they should check this out soon.

KM

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Sorry, I’d rather not post the full header in the forum. If Toni or another forum team member asks I’ll send to them directly.

Thanks

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Hi George,

Apologies for the spam. The Tech Community hasn’t been hacked or spoofed.
Just an old school spam that have went through our Spam filters and being tagged for a product you are subscribed to…
We have a quite sophisticated spam filter, but this time failed. I’ll tune it today and make it a bit more restrictive in order to avoid such email notifications, which are definitely annoying. If you receive something similar again just let me know.

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Thanks Toni. Your spam filters are so good I’d forgotten they occasionally get through!

George

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Hi Toni,

I got this one as well and I have flagged the post in the forum accordingly.

Regards,
Holger

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Thanks Holger,

Yes, it was deleted then, but the email was already sent out. I’m testing how we can make flags by top members remove/hide the post, without the need for a Staff approval.

Glad to hear that :slight_smile: We are tuning them a bit to try to avoid such notifications in future.

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I got another spam email this morning (same as above) from the same user as I did on Monday. Can you block account?

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Yes, it’s blocked now.

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