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Post by patricia on Mar 14, 2016 23:45:19 GMT
Hi all Did anyone else receive this email? Sender was hello@airbnbmail.com. It does look very authentic but the links all give the error message "Bad Request - Invalid URL", the URL that shows on the browser is "click.airbnb.mail.com". Maybe worth mentioning I used my iPad when I did it. Now I'm really worried our account got hacked. Here some screenshots of the email:    |
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Post by High Priestess on Mar 15, 2016 1:13:05 GMT
Hi Patricia If your account was hacked, the hacker isn't going to advertise this to you by sending you spoof emails. Normally when an account is hacked the hacker wishes to do NOTHING to alert you to the fact that you have been hacked. A number of hosts get odd emails and think they have been hacked ---- this isn't the likely result of being hacked. If you think through what a hacker wants to do (what their goal is) this can help. I am not sure why the URLs don't work unless you are on a device that doesn't allow clicking them. I suggest always try these things from your computer if in doubt, and before clicking on them, put your computer mouse/cursor on the link, then right-click, and click "copy link address" or "open link in another tab" -- the first allows you to see the link address before opening it. If it is an airbnb.com URL it is legitimate. This does seem a legitimate email as there was someone else posting on here about a Hostrepreneur webinar lately. See here globalhosting.freeforums.net/thread/1289/discouraged-airbnb |
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Post by trafalgar on Mar 15, 2016 2:12:17 GMT
Patricia, I got the same email and the links don't work. Definitely nothing to worry about.
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Post by patricia on Mar 15, 2016 2:50:56 GMT
Thanks Deborah and trafalgar for your quick replies. Usually the links are clickable and work on my iPad. After they didn't and got me worried about hacking/phishing etc I didn't want to try it on my laptop. All good now, thanks again :-)
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