Hasslefree minis possibly hacked

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**bubber**

Got an email earlier:

Coupon Validation

Greetings chaszczewski adam ,thank you for registering and been one of our monthly coupon winners
Your email as been added to our promo list, and you can now redeem your cheap coupon
We hope that you will enjoy everything Hasslefree Miniatures has to offer.

followed by a link.
Worried that my details have been nabbed....

Automatically Appended Next Post:
email:

link takes you to:

**Vain**

Speaking of details being nabbed, you may have wanted to blank out your name and email address from your piccies?

**Revarien**

Just as a point of order: You're NOT on their website - from that url...

You're on 'thepromo.link'

**Mymearan**

Yep looks like a dupe copy.

**zedmeister**

They've reported it on their Facebook and website homepage. Looks like the scammers have spoofed their newsletter e-mail address, sent out a dodgy phishing e-mail and you clicked on the link in the suspicious e-mail

**TheDraconicLord**

Not exactly an hack, it's a phishing attack attempt. HF already sent an email explaining the situation.

Scam Warning

Hey guys. Some of you may have received an email purporting to be from us about having won a voucher of some kind?

Do not click on anything in that email!

It's not from us, that's not our website address (it uses hyphens instead of periods). We would never charge you for anything you've won, we would never send an email asking for payment details for anything etc. Not do we use pop-ups in anythign we do.

We have no idea where it's from, it happened overnight for us here in the UK so we're only just able to start checking.

You can follow along at the FB thread HERE or we will be updating the front page of our actual website HERE.

The only bit of news I can tell you right now is that it doesn't seem likely to have anything to do with our attempted hack a little while ago. Because this scam email spoofed our email address then we are getting any bounces or out of office replies etc and some of those are 'not' in our customer database. We are awaiting the newsletter company we use and our tech guys to wake up so we can look into it more deeply.

Sorry to those of you this is happening for, we will update both places above as and when we know more. In the meantime the website is safe, as long as you go directly to it (Definitely double check the url if you happen to have had one of these emails just in case).

Thanks

Arty.

**BrookM**

Yes, phishing is not hacking people.

**Skinnereal**

Phishing is a social hack, not a technical one. They hack you, not the website. It's still an attack, though.

Hover over a link before you press it. If it doesn't look right, see if anything in the source of the page looks obviously dodgy.
It's harder to do on a touchscreen, of course.

Thanks for flagging it anyway.

**bubber**

I'm 42 & don't know what you pesky kids get up to on these infernal machines!
All I know is that they had my name which isn't part of private email account names thus I thought 'hack'.