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

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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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  • Profile picture of the author David Keith
    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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  • Profile picture of the author JennSpencerIM
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Nick Bykov
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    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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  • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
    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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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    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

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author niffybranco
    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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  • Profile picture of the author brainworker
    Got similar email. Clicked on the link and gave many fake account info.
    Good luck scammer!
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    • Profile picture of the author David Keith
      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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  • Profile picture of the author WholesalerJoe
    I got the same on dormant account.... Pretty sure Aweber is hacked
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  • Profile picture of the author BrandenNaka
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Gary McCaffrey
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Itachi
      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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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Alaway
    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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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    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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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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      • Profile picture of the author Itachi
        Originally Posted by craigc1980 View Post

        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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        • Profile picture of the author craigc1980
          Originally Posted by Itachi View Post

          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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  • Profile picture of the author tkulzer
    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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    • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
      Originally Posted by tkulzer View Post

      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
      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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      • Profile picture of the author pvn21
        I got this too. Promptly marked it as spam. The funny thing is I dont even have an Aweber account.
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    • Profile picture of the author renu
      Originally Posted by tkulzer View Post

      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
      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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  • Profile picture of the author SKWeaver
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Martin Salter
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
    The body of the email itself screams SCAM.
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    • Profile picture of the author RandySeet
      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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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    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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  • Profile picture of the author thetis
    Got the same email and I don't even have an Aweber account yet!!
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    • Profile picture of the author jeremiahv
      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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      • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
        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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  • Profile picture of the author DarioMontesdeOca
    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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