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Is the email: em-s.dropbox.com legitimate? [Answer: Yes]
I have received an e-mail telling me of a new document available for me in Dropbox. The e-mail is from an address that ends with " em-s.dropbox.com ". Can anybody confirm that " em-s. " is a valid adjunct to " dropbox.com ", or is it sooner a trick?
Thank you.
Hi Everybody,
I can confirm that these emails were sent from the Dropbox domain and are not harmful. This is one of the official domains Dropbox uses to send out emails. You can find the full list of domains here: https://help.dropbox.com/security/official-domains.
You can safely ignore them, though there was no negative impact to your account if you did click through the emails. You should not receive anymore emails of this type.
Regards,
Ben
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- All email from employees, support staff, and some service-related email (such as email verification, password reset confirmations, and Dropbox research study invitations) are sent from docsend.com, dropbox.com, dropboxmail.com, em-s.dropbox.com, em.dropbox.com, or dropbox.zendesk.com
- All Dropbox business related email originates from dropbox.com or dropboxpartners.com
- All promotional and tip emails originate from docsend.com, dropboxmail.com, em-s.dropbox.com, em.dropbox.com, or dropboxteam.com
OK, we know that Dropbox <no-reply@em-s.dropbox.com> is a valid email address, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a scam email since email addresses can be spoofed.
I've received spam/scam email from legit accounts, including my email account that I didn't send.
You need to check any links in the email to see if they're legit. Also the content/context is important.
In my case I received an email this morning from the above address stating "Your files are nearly ready to be uploaded". I uploaded some files last week and confirmed they were uploaded successfully, so I'm leery about this message.
Perhaps Dropbox needs to review it process to revise if these type of messages should in fact be sent.
- I received the same email with only 23% of 2TB used.
I received one too.
Today I got this:
For some reason it thinks I need to go through onboarding. There is an unsubscribe button and I did unsubscribe, but I can't help but feel like something's wrong.
- It is this account.
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks NickKon.
Just wanted to ping you here to let you know that http://em-s.dropbox.com/ is a valid email domain from Dropbox and that we've passed your feedback to our team.
If we have any kind of update for you, we'll follow up on this thread.
Thanks.
