Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation scam
The phishing spam is coming thick and fast today! Now we have a Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation scam email.
The subject line of the email is: Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation
The email address is wiki@wikimedia.org
The email reads:
Someone from the IP address 115.126.215.245 has registered the account “reports” with this e-mail address on the English Wikipedia.
To confirm that this user account really does belong to you and to activate e-mail features on Wikipedia, please open this URL in your browser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ConfirmEmail/7271ny6133xh76532r0no81677a52398, which goes to http://cruzdealba.es/wiki.html
If you did not recently register for Wikipedia (or if you registered with a different e-mail address),
click the following link to cancel the confirmation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Invalidateemail/9330tp9359ig57799z4rl45197e13611, again not going to confirm a registration for Wikipedia, it goes here: http://cruzdealba.es/wiki.html
This confirmation e-mail will automatically expire at Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:28:00 +0900
~Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you receive a Wkipedia email address confirmation email, like the one above, don’t click on anything, simply delete it, forget about it and have a fine day.
9 Responses to “Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation scam”
July 1st, 2010 at 11:29 am
Crap, I clicked on it without thinking. Now what?
Have a look at this:
Did you click on the link on the site, or just clicked on the link on the email? BM
July 1st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thanks - I did wonder when I saw the IP address was Eastern Europe!
You confirmed it’s a scam. Thanks for this.
December 24th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
i want confirm my mail address This is either very funny, or very sad. BM
July 31st, 2011 at 3:03 pm
has anyone else gotten a message on top of wikipedia saying that you have new messages? I got a mesage from cresix (I have never signed up for an account with wikipedia) saying my ip address (not even my address) was detected making changes to a website I have never been on (and a topic I have no interest in). I have tried contacting wikipedia to find out what’s on the go. anyone else have this problem? is this a scam or spam or spyware or what? I haven’t received that one myself, Kim, but if the email asked you to follow a link, open a file, or reply with information, it’s probably some kind of spyware/malware/phish. It could simply be an error, either way, why worry about it and waste time trying to get to the bottom of it. Simply delete it and move on with your day. 
BM
October 28th, 2013 at 2:55 pm
anthony smith - pish songwriter…
I want to be up front about spamming your blog for linking purposes - and yes, I am a pish songwriter
I don’t pretend to understand why Anthony Smith, the songwriter, wants to be found on Google as a “Pish Songwriter”, but the comment amused me, so I allowed him to have the link - although it IS nofollow, so is of no real advantage. BM.
July 1st, 2010 at 11:20 am
Yep, just got the same. Exchange caught it and junked it.