Spam email?

[Kath-H]

I'm subscribed to very few threads, but I got an email which was pure spam, purporting to be a message in that thread. It isn't in the thread - can I assume it was removed before I saw the email? I hope that's all it was.

[adobe-admin · Accepted solution]

Forum hosts and I are working on staying on top of spam. Unfortunately, we can't do much about it until it is posted. And that generates a notification email to whoever is subscribed. Our hope is to delete them as quickly as possible. But they will, most likely, always go out via email notifications.

[Kath-H]

OK thanks. I'll assume it did appear and got deleted before I saw it in the forum. I was very slightly worried about some kind of security leak. Somebody selling dodgy watches.

[John_Joslin]

Kath-H wrote:

OK thanks. I'll assume it did appear and got deleted before I saw it in the forum. I was very slightly worried about some kind of security leak. Somebody selling dodgy watches.

They appeared in the PS Win forum too.

[Kath-H]

Thanks, very helpful - have some points

[hershgrant]

i got this email which appears to be phishing    Is this real. Why is Jim Stone using my Adobe ID?

Dear Jim Stone,

To reset your Adobe.com Membership password, please click on the link below or copy and paste the link into an already open browser window.

Once you're on the web page, you will be instructed to re-enter your Adobe ID and re-set your new password.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?k=4667498B-DBAB-F634-C6111CADDD8AD383&loc=en_us

Please note:
For security purposes, this link will expire 24 hours from the time it was sent.

Some browsers and email applications may insert invalid characters or spaces into the link.  If this happens you will receive an error page.  Please copy and paste the link into your browser and try again.

If you need additional support, please contact us at:

U.S. and Canada:
http://www.adobe.com/support/service/

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http://www.adobe.com/international/support/

Adobe Support: 
http://www.adobe.com/support/

Adobe Privacy: 
http://www.adobe.com/misc/privacy.html

Your Communication Preferences: 
You may update your communication preferences by visiting: https://www.adobe.com/membership/

Thank you for visiting Adobe.com

[Gyno-jiz]

Please note:

For security purposes, this link will expire 24 hours from the time it was sent.

It's not real. If this were really from Adobe, the expiration would be about four hours.

[adobe-admin]

That looks like the standard password reset email and the links in your message look correct as posted here. Do they look correct in your email client if you hover over the links to they really go to the same place they are supposed to?

I don't know where the Jim Stone part comes in, though. I just went through the reset process to test it and it listed my name. Did you click on "Did you forget your password?" on an Adobe.com sign in page recently?

John