Has Audiogon Been Hacked?


I received what looks like a phishing email masquerading as Audiogon but sent from [email protected], not from audiogon.com. It reads:

Protect your Account

Starting with 15th January 2015 we will add a new security filter designed for your protection.

If any suspicious activity will be detected on your account, our system will lock it down and will ask some security questions regarding the current payment method (credit card/ debit card) added to your account.

It is mandatory that you confirm today your payment information attached to your Audiogon account. Like this our systems will be fully updated and we will be able to keep you safe in the future.

If you don't have any payment method set into your account the chances of your account being automatically locked by our systems is considerable high.

Confirming your payment method for your account is free of charge and your card will not be debited in any way, is going to be safe kept for your protection.

Confirm my card

But the URL on the Confirm my card link is in Spain: http://safeaudiogon.esy.es/sign-in.

Add to that, the security certificates are all invalid once I login separately (directly at audiogon.com).

If it a real email, it violates all the anti-phishing rules, as described above.

Oh, and I would have submitted it through the Contact, but the link gives me yet another invalid security certificate.

Brian.

bkrpdx

Showing 3 responses by jeffdill2

I seriously doubt Audiogon was hacked. If they were hacked, the people who sent you that email wouldn't be trying to trick you into "logging into your account" to obtain access to your account. They'd already have access to your account.
And agreed with @don_c55 - phishing emails are very common. This could have been a user that you exchanged emails with years ago and they've just been sitting on this email waiting for a good time to try and scam you.
@bkrpdx to repeat what I wrote above: "This could have been a user that you exchanged emails with years ago...". If you bought something from someone or they bought something from you, your email addresses were made known to each other.