{"id":15415,"date":"2023-08-30T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feedblitz.com\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:05:04","slug":"is-this-email-about-my-feedblitz-account-genuine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedblitz.com\/is-this-email-about-my-feedblitz-account-genuine\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Email About My FeedBlitz Account Genuine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bad actors can try to try to steal your login credentials here at FeedBlitz by faking a &#8220;your account has been suspended&#8221; or similar scary sounding email, which takes you to a copy of our login screen.&nbsp;We&#8217;re also seeing some new spins on this, where you need to verify your account details because of an &#8220;upgrade&#8221; &#8211; clearly untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad guys do this to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Collect your login info, and then try your email and password on other sites, such as financial ones, to steal from you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log in as you and send abusive emails to others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log in as you and download your lists, to abuse your subscribers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(FYI, FeedBlitz doesn&#8217;t store your payment information, that&#8217;s safely handled by our payment gateway, Authorize.net, which is part of Visa. Your credit card info is safe, simply because we don&#8217;t have it in our systems or databases.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to tell if an email from FeedBlitz about your account is genuine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Automated account emails will come from an account at a feedblitz.com domain, such as&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:support@feedblitz.com\">support@feedblitz.com<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:notify@feedblitz.com,\">notify@feedblitz.com,<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:noreply@feedblitz.com\">noreply@feedblitz.com<\/a>. If the email purporting to be from &#8220;feedblitz&#8221; is from a free consumer email site, like outlook.com, hotmail.com, or something similar, disregard it. We always and only use our own domains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We will only link to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedblitz.com\/\">www.feedblitz.com<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/app.feedblitz.com\/\">app.feedblitz.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; an account email from us won&#8217;t go anywhere else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We only use secure links (ones that start with https:\/\/ and have a closed padlock icon in most browser address bars).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Account emails are largely text, and not a link around an image containing text.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billing failure emails will arrive when you expect to be billed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The email will be grammatically correct English.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There won&#8217;t be unexpected punctuation in the email itself, or the subject line.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, use your common sense. If something feels off, pay attention to that feeling, and (as my old chess teacher used to say), sit on your hands. Don&#8217;t make a move until you&#8217;re sure about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steps to take to protect your FeedBlitz account<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not sure, or if something feels off,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedblitz.com\/support\">contact support<\/a>&nbsp;before you enter your info.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not enter your FeedBlitz login credentials at any site that is not actually at a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/feedblitz.com\/\">feedblitz.com<\/a>&nbsp;web address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change your password if it&#8217;s shared with other sites you use (common passwords are a bad idea anyway, you should not do this!).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable two factor authentication on your account profile page after you log in, if you haven&#8217;t already done so.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send yourself a password reset email via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/app.feedblitz.com\/f\/f.fbz?MailPwd\">https:\/\/app.feedblitz.com\/f\/f.fbz?MailPwd<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Um, I think I might have given my login credentials to a phishing site. Now what?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, no judgment. The bad guys are good at what they do, and it&#8217;s easy to be fooled unless you&#8217;re paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Contact support ASAP. We can check, block and reset the account for you until the situation is resolved.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For obvious reasons we will need to validate that you are who you say you are.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you re-use that login email and password combination anywhere else, reset those passwords ASAP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable two factor authentication (2FA) at FeedBlitz and other services that support it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad actors can try to try to steal your login credentials here at FeedBlitz by faking a &#8220;your account has been suspended&#8221; or similar scary sounding email, which takes you to a copy of our login screen.&nbsp;We&#8217;re also seeing some new spins on this, where you need to verify your account details because of an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is This Email About My FeedBlitz Account Genuine? 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