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September 12, 2024
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Language used in Abobe Acrobat error messages is alarming

  • September 12, 2024
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I do not use Acrobat, but a coworker of mine does. We are both very wary of scams and just assume everything is a scam from the beginning until shown otherwise. This morning, they were trying to print a document through Adobe Acrobat, and received an error message. Don't have the message in front of me, but it was something along the lines of, "document could not be printed, kindly use our help page to troubleshoot. Kindly visit our help page and adobe will assist you." Two things stuck for me in this supposedly official error message. First, they didn't capitalize "adobe" when from what I understand, "Adobe" has always been capitalized. Second, was the use of the word "kindly" which appeared once in one of the error messages and twice in another. This is not a word that typically appears in American English, and I most often see it in the emails that go directly to my spam folder asking me to "kindly send them $2,500 in Target gift cards" or "kindly provide my bank account information." In fact, a seminar hosted at my workplace on avoiding scams explicitly said that the use of this word should raise some red flags and make you think "Scam!" But apparantly, after some research, this is an official error message from Adobe. Has anyone else thought the same thing? Adobe is an American company, very strange that their officially supported programs are not using American English.

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Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
September 13, 2024

Hi brian_3068,

 

Thank you for reaching out and sharing the information.

 

We could look into this and share more information. However, for confirmation, we will require a screenshot of the error message that you received. It would be helpful if you can share that screenshot with us.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

Participant
September 13, 2024

Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
September 19, 2024

Hi brian_3068 ,

 

Please check your inbox. I have shared the email address where you can share the PDF.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

 


Hi brian_3068,

 

Thank you for sharing the file. We will check the file to determine the reason for the error message. If necessary, we will contact you for more information. 

Would like to inform you that the error messages you receive are from Adobe and not scams. 

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 12, 2024

Unless you post a screenshot of this message we can't assume this is actually by Adobe. It does sound strange it would be worded like that, if that's indeed the case.

Participant
September 13, 2024

Participant
September 13, 2024

Other documents print just fine.  I only screenshotted the message itself because the doc in question contains some semi-sensitive info. These messages seem to alternate with each attempt to print.  I am wary of clicking any of the links provided until I can confirm they are actually from Adobe.