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B3astieb0y
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

I received an email that might be spam - how can I be sure about it?

Received an email from the no reply dropbox email on my work email in regards to a "Employee Pay Increase Confirmation Statement", but the invite party isn't my companies HR email address. Is this Sp...
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Rich
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11 months ago
Walter wrote:

Can you follow the steps outlined here to confirm if this was indeed sent from an official Dropbox domain or not? If not, you can forward the suspicious email to abuse@dropbox.com and we'll investigate.

Even if it was sent from an official Dropbox domain, send it to abuse@dropbox.com anyway. People use the sharing abilities within Dropbox to send these phishing attempts, and when doing so the messages will come from the official Dropbox domains.

Forward it to abuse@dropbox.com and let your company IT know about it as well. They'll want to search their mail system for other copies. If you received it, chances are others in your company did as well.

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