Beware of Phishing PM's
5 years ago


Hi y'all!
We just got an suspicious PM which we believe is a phishing attempt with a malware link.. The user also deactivated after sending the PM.
We did not click & respond, and decided reported to FA staff.
We hope our watchers don't fall for them or similar notes, as it is very vague in nature, ours stating
"Someone else is using your drawing I imagine that without your permission
here the link to that post (LINK which we omitted)
remove the 5 after the d so that the link is correct
pass the advertising on skip and you will see the post"
We do know various people on pinterest (and sometimes ig) use our work without permission so we try to stay on lookout for such. But considerate people who let us know that our work is stolen do not leave such this vague messages and are rather specific unlike the earlier PM.
Seeing this, we hope you all stay safe and avoid shady links.
We just got an suspicious PM which we believe is a phishing attempt with a malware link.. The user also deactivated after sending the PM.
We did not click & respond, and decided reported to FA staff.
We hope our watchers don't fall for them or similar notes, as it is very vague in nature, ours stating
"Someone else is using your drawing I imagine that without your permission
here the link to that post (LINK which we omitted)
remove the 5 after the d so that the link is correct
pass the advertising on skip and you will see the post"
We do know various people on pinterest (and sometimes ig) use our work without permission so we try to stay on lookout for such. But considerate people who let us know that our work is stolen do not leave such this vague messages and are rather specific unlike the earlier PM.
Seeing this, we hope you all stay safe and avoid shady links.
That said, some of those ad link sites are full of bugged ads so its still dangerous.