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ads1212
3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
SCAM Warning
Yesterday I received this scam email purporting to be Dropbox. I was initially freaked out by receiving this but when I checked Dropbox online, no files had been deleted. Warning to a...
- 3 years ago
Hey ads1212, how are you today?
If you take a look at the email address of the sender, you will see that it uses a legit Dropbox domain, meaning this is a legit Dropbox email.
If you look at your events page like Rich suggested, are you able to see any deletion events related to these files?
ads1212
Helpful | Level 7
Thanks for that. I’m on a Mac and when I hover over the URL, it does not show me where it points to. I have checked my dropbox deleted items and the thousands of files that the email say were deleted are not there. Dropbox has been really slack at following up my report to them. Very disappointing.
Hannah
3 years agoDropbox Staff
Hey ads1212, how are you today?
If you take a look at the email address of the sender, you will see that it uses a legit Dropbox domain, meaning this is a legit Dropbox email.
If you look at your events page like Rich suggested, are you able to see any deletion events related to these files?
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