![]() We’ve been receiving questions about how you’ve gotten onto our newsletter. It's actually not that difficult to send emails that LOOK legit (they're using the correct domain). It's depressing that somebody would try to do this during a worldwide pandemic…but unfortunately, there's always going to be people out there that try to take advantage of others during shitty circumstances. One of our users had her phone compromised by someone halfway around the world, and the malicious actor sent out the invoice email within two hours of access. We have multiple users at our company who access Maropost to send emails to our audience. Though running an antivirus software wouldn't hurt. To repeat: if you didn't open any downloaded files, it seems like you should be fine. In the case that you opened the file, we highly recommend you run an antivirus software to get rid of it. It seems like the malicious actor was trying to get people to download and run a vbs file. If you clicked on the link, downloaded the files to your computer, and opened those files, we suggest running a virus scanner to make sure your device is safe. If you clicked on the links within the email but did nothing else, you are safe. The only thing you need to do is ignore the email. Because Maropost is third-party software, it is not connected to our payment platforms or course platforms, and no payment information was compromised. We apologize for the inconvenience and alarm this has caused you.Ī malicious actor accessed our Maropost account (our email sender) to send out this email. We did not send it, and you will not be charged anything. ![]() The body of the email was a receipt for a $470 invoice. Starting at 12:12 pm Pacific time, our entire email list received an email from with the title, “Invoice 1147 from Jumpcut, Inc.” This email was sent not just to “active” email addresses (people who have clicked on any Jumpcut email in the last 4 months), but every single email address on our list, even those who we marked as do not email. Update to our community: Our email service provider was hacked the morning of April 14th. Scan your system using an up-to-date anti-virus program.īelow is a statement from JumpCut explaning what happened.If you have already clicked on a link or downloaded something from the email: Invoice 1147 from Jumpcut, don't click on any links or attachments, or reply to the email. » Virus - Malware - Trojan - Ransomware - Spyware.» Phishing - Scamming - Fraud - Identity Theft. ![]()
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