Hello everyone,
I recieved below mail from.bse star mf regarding account registered on value vest services private limited.I am out of India and don’t remember creating any account at the said company.Is this a phishing email.The
link opens to be start platform though.
there are few possibilities,
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first of all, as you mentioned, you are out of India and you dont remember doing that transaction, then you just need to ignore the mail. But, if you really want to dig deeper, then read below items !
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if you are using gmail and your mail address is containing dot (.), then it is possible that you might be getting another person’s mail having similar mail address without dot (.). here is the gmail page that clarifies it,
Dots don’t matter in Gmail addresses
(other mail services such as yahoo or hotmail may also have similar behavior, need to be checked)
few months back I had similar problem, I was receiving mail from Bajaj Allianz about insurance plan that somebody have bought and he was having similar mail address like mine but without dot in it.
in such case, you can wait for some time, may be 3, 6 or 12 month and they will send a statement. it will have a password as per birth date or PAN card and it will be clear if it doesnot match then the mail you are receiving belongs to other person.
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or, you need to find out if the sender is really sending mail from “whatever company” mail server. For this, you click on the small trialngle that is on right hand side of letter B in yellow circle and the text “to me”. once you click on triangle, you will find the details related sender and mail server. If the sender is spamming or phishing, then the details such as “from”, “reply-to”, “mailed-by” and “signed-by” will not be matching.
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still, if you want to do more, try opening the link, as it asks to update nominees, it will certainly ask for login details which you definitely won’t have. so it will ask you to reset the password etc, and you will find the masked mail address or phone number that you can identify that it doesnt match with yours. if by chance, it matches, then you need to check with your family or relatives if they have initiated any such transaction (which is again, less probable).
R
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Thank you. Let me check it.