Fake Email

[jenetraj]

Someone on our team account keeps getting the following email. I am the admin on the account, however, I did not provide this. I can only assign licenses for Creative Suite and Adobe Acrobat. This person has Adobe Acrobat DC Pro already. The email address it's coming from is adobesign@adobesign.com. Can someone tell me if this email is legit, or do we need to to mark it as phishing email? I've contacted our account manager, and to no suprised, I haven't heard back.

[mariahweyne]

That is not a fake email nor phishing.  It is the email from which all of Adobe Sign transactions are sent. Users should white list the email to avoid emails going to spam.

[jenetraj]

Hi, my organization has been getting hit with a lot of phishing emails lately. It is very possible that this has already been reported as such to our IT admin (for our organization, not Adobe). I am the Admin on our team account who assigns the licenses. Yet I've never assigned anything for Adobe Sign and did nothing else to add this feature. Maybe the communications team at Adobe should rethink how they communicate about Adobe Sign to people who have these accounts.

There are 2 people on the team who've been receiving these emails and have been ignoring them, with one possibly reporting these emails as phishing. So saying that I (the admin) updated our account for this is VERYmisleading. The fact that I also reported this to our account manager and never heard back doesn't help either, which is why I posted my concern here. I really need to hear back from an Adobe staff before I feel comfortable telling other staff to whitelist this email.


Thanks,
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Jenetra Jackson
The Urban Alternative
Visual Designer and Project Coordinator
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@jenetraj 

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[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi jenetraj,

Thank you for reaching out.

The email that you receive is from the Adobe Acrobat Sign team. It is a genuine email sent to you for the information and to archive the existing account. It is sent when a user gets access to Acrobat Sign from their organization and already has an Acrobat Sign account activated under the same email address.

As you have mentioned that the person has Acrobat Pro already, it includes the Acrobat Sign Individual plan. Even after canceling the subscription at his end, the Acrobat Sign account will remain there as a free account. 

In this case, you may ask the user to check the account at his end and download the required documents. Once that is done, the user can use the Archive option in this email. That will convert the old account to the account to which you have provided access.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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[jenetraj]

Hi, Thank you for your reply. I am confused as to why a person's email address would be dissociated with their previous account. Is this really necessary? The individual who had Acrobat probably doesn't want me, the account admin, to have access to documents he signs. He is the CFO and I'm sure certain financial documents he has are supposed to remain confidential. Also, nothing has been done on his end to activate Acrobat Sign, and the same is true about the other individual who has Acrobat.

Again, I would implore your organization to change how you communicate about these added software/functionality as, again, I as the admin for The Urban Alternative Team, did nothing to grant access to Adobe Acrobat Sign. It sends mixed messages.

[Anel31572842gn4c]

Good day Adobe team,

I have received the same email to sign a Nedbank invoice. Based on this thread I went ahead and clicked on the link to "review and sign". This takes me to another page: Review and Sign (adobe.com).  I've included a screenshot of what this page looks like. There is an option to sign the document and to view the document. When selecting the "View Document" option, it provides a pop-up with this question: 

Do you want to open this link: https://westpeakrs.com.au/wp-admin/Microsoft365/Documents.html?

Microsoft Defender then blocks the site, deeming it as unsafe to proceed (attached screenshot as well).

This begs the question as to how safe and legit this actually is? Both links do not take me to any Adobe website or sign in page for Adobe. The URL's have nothing to do with Adobe. I will for this reason not be signing this off. I emplore Adobe to adjust the requirement of this so that users should need to sign-in to the normal Adobde trusted login page to view and sign any documents they might need for verification of accounts or anything of the sort.

If Adobe is going to revoke or make any changes to my account for any reason because of this, I will be hugely dissappointed.

Kind regards,

Anel

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Anel31572842gn4c,

Thank you for reaching out.

Could you please share the screen recording of the email received and what happens when you try to open the link in the email?

If you find the email spam, please click on the Report Abuse hyperlink option provided at the bottom of the email. The team will get information about the email and will take the required action.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[Anel31572842gn4c]

Thank you Meenakshi. I have reported the email. Please note that I did attach screenshots of where the email takes me on my original reply. I have now also included a screenshot of the email.

[lee_anne_2465]

That is all scam and those recommending you click it are probably part of the scam. Look for other email address in the email (odd email addresses). Contact ADOBE at their legitimate website; that is what I did and they confirmed the email I received was SCAM. DO NOT EVER click on any link in an email you are unsure of. Contact companies directly f you are concerned, not the contacts in the email message the real companies.