Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch

Subject	Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch
Newsgroups	soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.britain
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From	Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk>
Date	2023-05-14 10:06 +0100
Message-ID	<jj6dneCS_vIMOf35nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> (permalink)

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knuttle wrote:
> On 5/13/2023 6:32 PM, Denis Beauregard wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 May 2023 15:10:02 +0100, Ian Goddard
>> <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>>
>>> Has anyone else received an email allegedly from Familysearch
>>> congratulating them on being promoted to Level1?
>>
>> Any idea about what would mean "Level 1" ? Sounds like malware.
>>
>>
>> Denis
>>
> I suspect that if you answered that email, you would get a "Level 1" rip 
> off.   And if you cooperate, they could take you for much more.

Return address is noreply at familysearch.  The links in the email look 
like a subdomain of familysearch unless there's one of these look-alike 
alphabets in use.  It's not impossible, of course, that someone has 
managed to get at their DNS and create their own subdomain.  I'll tru 
pinging that to see if there are any clues.  The outbound address looks 
like the sort of 3rd party -spammer- mailing house that marketing 
departments use.

Searching for the text online indicates that others have received them 
as well bu no explanation on a look.

The address isn't this one but it is one I might have used with them in 
the past and have used here in the past from which it's been harvested

I've emailed FS support so I'll see what they say.  If someone has set 
up a rogue subdomain they should be able to deal with it.  If this is 
marketing stupidity the email tells them it's irresponsible.

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Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-13 15:10 +0100
  Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2023-05-13 10:56 -0400
    Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch "Frank L. Thiel" <f.l.thiel.4@gmail.com> - 2023-05-13 16:37 -0400
  Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> - 2023-05-13 18:32 -0400
    Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2023-05-13 21:17 -0400
      Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-14 10:06 +0100
        Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> - 2023-05-14 21:53 -0400
          Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-15 10:53 +0100
            Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2023-05-15 06:46 -0400
              Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-15 12:46 +0100
                Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-15 13:00 +0100
            Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2023-06-15 07:59 +0200
          Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Enno Borgsteede <ennoborg@gmail.com> - 2023-05-15 14:33 +0200
            Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> - 2023-05-16 12:16 +0100
              Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2023-05-22 21:46 +0100

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