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Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch

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Enno Borgsteede wrote:
> Op 15-05-2023 om 03:53 schreef Denis Beauregard:
>> On Sun, 14 May 2023 10:06:25 +0100, Ian Goddard
>> <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>>
>>> Searching for the text online indicates that others have received them
>>> as well bu no explanation on a look.
>>
>> Perhaps this ?
>>
>>
>> https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/145181/what-does-notification-promoted-to-level-1-mean 
>>
>>
>> This sounds like a mistake when testing some new feature !
> 
> I don't think so. 

It was.  familysearch.org have confirmed that to me:

"Last week we changed one of the settings in the Beta Community, which 
is a testing site that we use before anything gets launched here in this 
Community. That change triggered a mass email that we did not know was 
going to be sent. We are still exploring why the email was sent and who 
got it. We are so sorry for the confusion.

Please disregard these emails or any others that direct you to the Beta 
Community."


I followed the link to the beta community, and signed
> in with my existing FamilySearch account. I did that, because I felt 
> safe enough to do so, because it looked like a legitimate page in the 
> FamilySearch domain,

Thousands of people have done similar things because they felt safe 
because it looked like a legitimate page in a legitimate domain.

You were lucky this time.  It was a legitimate domain, only the email 
was an error.

What has happened is that familysearch.org have now trained you to be 
accepting of emails which look as if they've come from a trusted source 
and to click on and log into what looks like a trusted site.  And next 
time you do that it might be a scammer.  You might get your bank account 
emptied.  If you do that on a work computer your company might get taken 
down with ransomware.

This time you were lucky.  Next time you might not be.  I repeat, this 
time you were lucky.  Please don't push your luck.

Ian

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