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Warning: A Brazen Phising Attack Underway Aimed at GoDaddy.com Account Holders

June 25, 2009 by Michael Berkens

Just to warn everyone, there is a phishing attacked underway, aimed at Godaddy.com account holders.

I received over 100 e-mail overnight purporting to be from Godaddy.com seeking you to log in to your account, however the link in the e-mail goes the domain cyber-edge.com which is unrelated to Godaddy.com.  I consider this a a brazen attack, because the domain used in the phishing e-mail is actually registered with Godaddy.com, which may trick some into thinking it is a legit e-mail, which is certainly is not

I have notified Godaddy.com about the situation.

If you get one of these e-mails do NOT click on the link and give out your account info.

Here is how the e-mail reads:

“”””Dear Customer,

This notification is generated automatically as a service to you.

Because of unusual number of invalid login attempts on you account, we had to believe that, their might be some security problem on you account. So we have decided to put an extra verification process to ensure your identity and your account security.
Please click on sign in to domain servers to continue to the verification process and ensure your account security. It is all about your security. Thank you. and visit the customer service section.

please contact us within 1 days.

If you need to address this matter, or in any way need further assistance or technical support, call us any time at (480) 505-8877 or email us at support@godaddy.com. We appreciate your business!

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com DomainAlert team””””

Filed Under: Domain Industry

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Reece Berg says

    June 25, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Thanks for letting us know Mike. I’m surprised the scammers don’t bother to at least hire someone who speaks proper English to write their emails…

  2. GD says

    June 25, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Thanks for the update. I also received 100+ emails, and responded to support@godaddy.com, thinking this was real issue (I did not click on the link). Didn’t know it was a hack until I read your post.

  3. Chef Patrick says

    June 26, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Thanks for the update.

    Luckily I haven’t received any of these emails YET. I’ll be sure to pass this along in my video today 🙂


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