Coinbase account locked

[Arthur Rubin]

I received a text message from coinbase-securtyphonenumber. (10 digits) @ foweather.me.uk saying my Coinbase account has been locked to "suspicious activity", and to click a link at t.co to unlock the account.

If I had a Coinbase account, I might be worried.....

[Edited to add] I didn't feel like expanding the text message to see what they would do if I didn't confirm the account -- I thought the expansion might trigger something.

[Pottapaug1938]

I get these on a semi-regular basis. I also do not have a Coinbase account; and I don't want malware on my computer. The fact that I get quite a different e-mail address to come up, when I put my cursor over their link, is a huge red flag.

[The Observer]

Yes, this is the scam attempt based on trying to scare the victim into clicking the link. This has used all sorts of businesses, utilities, medical and government organizations that the scammer hopes that are part of his/her target's association.

[Pottapaug1938]

Just now, I got:

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Ya think it's a phony?

[AnOwlCalledSage]

Here's an interesting thing to watch out for on attachments.

‮Not waht you think it is!

I actually typed "Not what you think it is!"

But with Unicode 202E as the first character!

[wserra]

‮Not waht you think it is!

I actually typed "Not what you think it is!"

But with Unicode 202E as the first character!

Damn. I would have sworn that you typed "Not waht you think it is!"

Unicode 202E appears to have some undocumented effects.

[eric]

noted and documented...
https://xkcd.com/1137/

[AnOwlCalledSage]

Damn. I would have sworn that you typed "Not waht you think it is!"

Unicode 202E appears to have some undocumented effects.

And that's my "corrected" version. Turns out it's difficult to type when you are seeing the characters come out backwards