Beware of Emails Asking You to "Confirm Your Unsubscribe" Request

silversurfer

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A long-running scam email campaign that pretends to be an unsubscribe confirmation request has seen an uptick recently. These emails should never be clicked on or responded to as they are designed to harvest working email addresses or to perform some other type of scam.

Over the past week, BleepingComputer has seen a constant stream of emails with subjects like "Confirm your unsubscribe request" or "Client #980920318 To_STOP_Receiving These Emails From Us Hit reply And Let Us Know".
While this is an long-running email scam, this is the first time we encountered them, so we thought we should issue an alert.

Unlike normal unsubscribe notifications, these scam emails do not contain any indication of what you are unsubscribing from and simply state:
Please_confirm your Unsubscribe

To confirm your Unsubscribe, please click here or on the link below.
Unsubscribe me!

Thank you!
Furthermore, these emails come in a variety of templates, with some being more professional looking like the one below.

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I got these today but Gmail placed them into the Spam folder. I still took a look and I'm shocked at how convincing they look. Everyone wants to unsubscribe so you instantly click and that's how they get you. I worry about anyone less savvy.
 

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