So I got an email from Coinbase telling me -- breathlessly of course -- the following:
Your account will be closed within 24 hours |
Dear Costomer, |
Our team detected that you used other people's data when registering a Coinbase account. The activities you carry out violate our terms and agreements. |
Therefore, we will close your account in the next 24 hours. Immediately verify via the link below and use your personal data to repair your Coinbase account. |
I, of course, being a suspicous jerk, know immediately this is a scam.
There's the misspelling of "costomer," combined with the lack of personalization and the litany of subtle grammar errors in the message that follows.
There's the email coming from an "info@" address connected to a university hospital in Pittsburgh.
There's the urgency to repair my account, and the contradiction that repairing my account will assuage their accusation that I used someone else's data to create my account in the first place.
Their landing page looks like this:
Coinbase's login page looks like this:
I can see how someone in a hurry might be fooled by this. But see the "suspicious jerk" thing I mentioned earlier, so I'm wary.
Also, I don't have a Coinbase account.
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