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rthompson1
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Possible Phishing Scam using Dropbox

Received this email which is suspect as I already have the desktop app downloaded. Tried to submit to Customer Service but the ChatBot did not understand. Just wanted to warn folks if it's not real...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey rthompson1, thanks for joining our Community.

 

The address of the sender of this email is a legit Dropbox email, using one of our official domains.

 

However, since you're already using our desktop application, you can simply ignore this email.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

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