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A few of our clients have received a very scary email, and this scam is becoming increasingly common. This all begins with an email claiming you are illegally using photos or illustrations on your website. Some of our clients have even worried that we really did illegally use images on their sites, but we never, ever do that (and often times, the cited images are actually images we've created). In fact, we have personally received this email more than fifteen times over the last two years, and our site has no illegal images whatsoever. These scammers are taking a new approach to the old phishing scheme. They just want you to click a link, and they use fear as a very tempting bait.
The name often changes, but the email usually reads about the same. Here is the most common version we've seen:
"This is Mellie and I am a professional photographer. I was baffled, frankly speaking, when I came across my images on your website. If you use a copyrighted image without my approval, you need to be aware that you could be sued by the owner. It’s illegal to use stolen images and it’s so nasty! Take a look at this document with the links to my images you used at [website URL] and my earlier publications to obtain evidence of my copyrights. Download it now and check this out for yourself: [Redacted link to the phishing site]. If you don’t delete the images mentioned in the document above within the next several days, I’ll write a complaint against you to your hosting provider stating that my copyrights have been infringed and I am trying to protect my intellectual property.
And if it doesn’t work, you may be sure I am going to report and sue you! And I will not bother myself to let you know of it in advance."
This is a phishing scam designed to install malware on your computer.
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