I had a recent struggle with malicious attack on my blog that some of you know of and hopefully, when my load is just a little less in the next week or so, I will share the few steps that I followed and the mind-numbing number of emails between myself, google and WordPress before the situation was resolved.

However, I just received a so called email message above from Gmail and my sixth sense simply told me to verify the source, so my verification from WordPress engineers -see discussion thread below – confirms that it’s a phishing mail to harvest your details

acquelineobyikocha	Hello good morning, this is an emergency please
Mahangu	Hi there! What can I help you with?
Mahangu	🙂
jacquelineobyikocha	Hello Mahangu
jacquelineobyikocha	I just got a funny email alert telling me this
jacquelineobyikocha	Hello, We noticed the last document you downloaded, contains a Trojan Virus please follow the link https://formcrafts.com/a/19603 to enable us delete it from your E-MAIL Now. For your safety, We also recommend you format your computer/ Device to further remove any Threat of the virus. Kindest Regards, Gmail! Security Services team
Mahangu	Right. You didn’t click that link, did you?
jacquelineobyikocha	I believe I did and it wanted me to enter my details and I didn’t
Mahangu	Good thinking! That is a “phishing” email, and you can safely ignore it.
Mahangu	Gmail, or WordPress.com, or any trustworthy source will never send you a form to enter your account info.
Mahangu	They already have it, right? 🙂
jacquelineobyikocha	Wow! Can you beat that!
jacquelineobyikocha	Good to know. Thank you very much. I will educate some of my readers.
Mahangu	Great! 🙂
Mahangu	If you think you may have even half entered your account details there though, I would change your real account password.
Mahangu	Just to be safe.
jacquelineobyikocha	Thank you Mahangu. I just wanted to verify. Do have a good day/afternoon/night etc today
jacquelineobyikocha	No I didn’t enter anything but I’ll still go ahead and change my password.

Be very mindful. Secure your passwords, make sure your anti-virus is up-to-date. They are really some malicious people out there.

Be bloggy safe.

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