Came across a phishing attempt that anyone designing/running websites should know about. It began with "Your website or a website that your company hosts is infringing on a copyright-protected images owned by myself."
I knew that I'd licensed all the images on said website, so that prevented me from panic-clicking the link that says "Take a look at this report with the URLs to my images you used."
After a quick search, I discovered that it's a scam being used to spread ransomware. The email I received was the same others have received, verbatim. techlicious.com/blog/fake-copy…
So, 1. pay artists for their work and 2. don't fall for the scam.
While we're on the subject, I discovered another scam (not checking email for a long time can sometimes be really helpful, because I received 2 of these that were identical except for the name in the signature, months apart) telling me that I'd misspelled something on my site.
This particular email was very friendly, complete with smiley faces. There was no link, but there was a web address listed for some sort of tool they were pushing. (no, I didn't visit the address)
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