Suspicious Email from Bitcointalk? | Bitcointalksearch.org

Quote from: hous26 on January 02, 2018, 08:10:37 PM

I received this email as I was driving home from work:

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Bitcoin Forum <[email protected]>

6:36 PM (1 hour ago)

to me
Dear hous26,

This mail was sent because the 'forgot password' function has been applied to your account. To set a new password click the following link:

XXXXXXXXXXXEDITEDXXXXXXXXXXXXX

IP: 187.180.69.253

Username: hous26

Regards,
The Bitcoin Forum Team.

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You are receiving this message because you are a member of the
Bitcoin Forum. If you do not want to receive further messages, you
can change your notification preferences here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;sa=notification
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;sa=pmprefs

If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=reminder

Is it legit? I didn't request a password reset and this has me concerned.

The IP is from Brazil. I've got no connections to Brazil.

EDIT: This is resolved. It was a scam attempt but the email was valid. Please be careful and ignore password reset requests you didn't send. Just ignore them.

Additionally, you can trace an email message using its 'Received:' headers. Be wary of fake headers though. The 'Received:' header written by your own provider's server can be trusted to show from where that server received the message.

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