PHISHING WARNING: “ROLAND BACKSTAGE” email

Started by peterp, February 24, 2012, 06:00:17 PM

peterp

Careful with your emails
I've started to get emails saying they are from "Roland Backstage" found this warning about them
http://forums.rolandclan.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42127

What got me suspicious was the reply to address of <rolandus@reply.bronto.com>
and Thunderbird flagged it as a phishing email right away.
They are trying to get you to go in and change your roland password using a fake link to a harvesting site.


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It looks legitimate to me. I have many emails from Roland US going back to Oct. 2009 and they're all from "rolandus@reply.bronto.com". I believe bronto.com is a marketing company which Roland uses to handle their mailing lists.

http://bronto.com/

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=roland&as_sitesearch=bronto.com

Still, it pays to be cautious. Instead of using the links in the email, go directly to the Roland Backstage website to change your password:

http://www.rolandus.com/backstage/login.php

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