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  • 2022-10-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Scam Email: 'You Have Been Selected' for 'Who's Who in America' (en)
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  • In late October 2022, we looked into an email scam that claimed to the recipient, You Have Been Selected, and said the purported selection was for the person to be included in the annual publication, Who's Who in America. Readers are advised to not click any links in this or any other similar messages, as it did not come from Marquis Who's Who, the publisher of Who's Who in America. We received a detailed statement from Marquis Who's Who about these kinds of scammers and have printed the message in full at the end of this article. One example of the scam that we reviewed showed the suspicious email address info_iytDUQfx4l@loykffthgo.linenight.com via pbpfzhxa.spiritmuch.com. This was not an email address that was associated with the publisher. The top of the email message said, Join today's achievers in Who's Who! The rest of the message was one giant image of text, which can sometimes be a red flag that an email is a scam. The text in the image said, This letter serves to inform you that you being considered for inclusion in the next edition of 'Who's Who in America!' The email was signed at the bottom as supposedly coming from Marquis Who's Who. A button read, Accept this honor. Click here. However, again, this was a scam. Marquis Who's Who had no part in the scam. We ran the main link in the email through IP Quality Score's malicious URL scanner. The results of the scan said that the email led to malware, and that the link was confirmed to be a phishing URL. The Marquis Who's Who website says the publication's history goes back to the 19th century: After we contacted Marquis Who's Who about the scam, we received a lengthy response from the company's CEO, Erica Lee. We have chosen to publish that response in its entirety: (en)
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