[Phishing ?] Suspicious mail allegedly sent by FD
- Thread starter Leo Sagan
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I registered twice
No problem
No problem
I don't understand why they always fail to create legit looking emails.
I don't understand why those that complain about these mails only do a poor investigation to support their premise that they are dodgy. There's a different between dodgy and amateur, and a proper investigation of the emails does not point to them being dodgy...
It's to do with new GDPR legislation coming into force in the UK. Essentially, you have to re-sign up to receive marketing materials. Lots of places will be doing this as the law comes into effect on May 1st.
Source: lawyer.
Source: lawyer.
The first thing I did when I received the mail was looking at the forums and I spotted the announcement immediately. The thing is, when I receive mails from other companies I don't need to visit their forums in order to find out they are legal.
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To clarify:
Why do they use such a stupid subject? "Important information about your subscription"? That already sounds fishy. Why don't they use the same formatting they use for newsletters? Every idiot knows about corporate design but Frontier never heard of it. Why do they send their newsletters via newsletters(at)email-frontier.co.uk and the mail about the newsletters via newsletters(at)email-elitedangerous.com? Why is the signature completely different?
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I decided it had to be legitimately from FD ..... it was offering a paint job for a ship I don't have or want 
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And we just had a few threads about their inability to write a proper email one or two weeks ago with much advice on how to do it better. They have lots of community managers. Allegedly there are regulary ~30 Frontier employees reading the forums. Why is not a single one of them able to understand the art of not looking like a nigerian prince?
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And yes, it's not a big issue, no drama and absolutely unimportant. But it's also pretty easy to get right.
And we just had a few threads about their inability to write a proper email one or two weeks ago with much advice on how to do it better. They have lots of community managers. Allegedly there are regulary ~30 Frontier employees reading the forums. Why is not a single one of them able to understand the art of not looking like a nigerian prince?
PPPS
And yes, it's not a big issue, no drama and absolutely unimportant. But it's also pretty easy to get right.
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Even if it wasn't legit .... would it have counted as phishing?
It is sent to your email address and asks you to confirm your email address. It doesn't ask for login details, or your phone, or pet's middle name .... or anything !
It is sent to your email address and asks you to confirm your email address. It doesn't ask for login details, or your phone, or pet's middle name .... or anything !
25th of May
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Every company which process EU citizens data has to obtain active consent from each subject (you) and inform them what the data is used for and the subject's rights. We'll all be getting a LOT of these types of emails, well those of us who are EU citizens will be. Be sensible though and you're right to question the authenticity of these emails, there will be a shed load of spam / malicious GDPR emails doing the rounds so careful what you click.
Source: infosec / compliance
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Every company which process EU citizens data has to obtain active consent from each subject (you) and inform them what the data is used for and the subject's rights. We'll all be getting a LOT of these types of emails, well those of us who are EU citizens will be. Be sensible though and you're right to question the authenticity of these emails, there will be a shed load of spam / malicious GDPR emails doing the rounds so careful what you click.
Source: infosec / compliance
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