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mellylouc
10 months agoNew member | Level 2
Possible scam email sent directly from noreply@mail.hellosign.com
Hello! This morning I received a strange email from noreply@mail.hellosign.com and it was for a signature for a subscription for Geek $quad(?). It's $399 USD and I have no idea what this service would be for. I Googled the "customer support team" phone number and it came back as potentially being for an escort service in Florida. I checked my bank accounts, Paypal and Venmo, and don't see any pending charges. The signature request is also from an email and name I do not recognize and it appears they're a student at an Italian university(their email may have been hacked I'm guessing). So yeah, definitely not convinced this is a legit charge, but I can't lose $399 dollars either, so I guess I'm trying to see if this legit, or just spam. The fact that it was sent from a legitimate Dropbox email gives me pause. No, I did not click the links, but when I hover my cursor over the links in Chrome, I can see the URLs are for official Dropbox services. I called Geek Squad, just to confirm that there is no account in my name. I'm not sure if there's a specific way to contact Dropbox directly about this, or if this is the appropriate method. Thanks to anyone for offering help!
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Hi mellylouc, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I've removed the image for your own privacy and security.
I'd recommend forwarding this email directly to abuse@dropbox.com in order to report this to the appropriate team for them to take action on it.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
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- JLL68Explorer | Level 3
I received the same email this afternoon. As soon as I spoke to the person, I knew it was a scam. Dropbox, you need to address this ASAP before people lose money. They said I was going to be charged $588 if I don't cancel my order from Dropbox in 24 hours.
- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey JLL68 - thanks for the additional report.
Did you send an email to abuse@dropbox.com as Jay suggested?
- JLL68Explorer | Level 3
No, but I will soon. Thank you.
- jakebrewNew member | Level 2
I received 2 phone calls from someone called Danielle from STP, so i finally called them back and it all seemed suspicious, trying to recover money so they sent an email to me to sign. the email address was mailto:noreply@mail.hellosign.com and it was using dropbox sign and then a few minutes later the document no longer appeared. I did not sign anything
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi jakebrew, thanks for the info.
Please could you forward that email to abuse@dropbox.com in order for the team to be made aware of what you received, and in order for them to investigate further.
Thanks for reporting this interaction you had earlier.
- jamis56New member | Level 2
I'm so glad I found this thread. I just got the Bitdefender email too. Forwarded to dropbox
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