Insufficient Storage Space Scam
If you have been using your email account for several years without clearing out old emails it could be that you are approaching and possibly exceeding the storage limits that you have on your email account. What you will not get is an email in this form to try and get you to click on a link.Let's have a look at the email received and look at the pointers that the email is a scam or phishing attempt to try to gain access to your email account...
E-Mail received:
Date: 21/04/2025, 14:34
From: Email alert@email.com
To: [Email address redacted]
Subject: Insufficient storage space
Notes: The sender email address, alert@email.com is an email provided by the free email service Mail.com. If you were actually running out of storage space and the email service wished to contact you they would do so using their own email address.
The Click through links to either download emails or increase storage space link to https://acacia-turkey.com/i/?c3Y9Z2VuZXJhbCZyPUh0JnVpZD1VU0VSMjgwNTIwMjVVMTkwNTI4MDYmc z1oQg=N0123Nmfowler@mf3.co.uk.
The website address https://acacia-turkey.com raises suspicions in it being an industrial polymers site although I think it may be a fake website as it raises virus alerts of being harmful.
Recomendation: Don't click on any links, just delete the email. If you have any concerns about your email storage space just login in the usual way you use to your email provider and check your usage within the allowed limits.
and another email received...
Date: 05/06/2025, 12:21
From: Sherry Walkerson olefc@oaklake.org
To: [Email address redacted]
Subject: Re: Need investment to grow your business?
Notes: The sender has not even managed to match the subject line with the subject of the email ciz insuffient space! Email address, olefc@oaklake.org is nothing to do with your email service provider, the website https://www.oaklake.org is a US Church website.
The Click through links to either download emails or increase storage space link to https://acacia-turkey.com/i/?c3Y9Z2VuZXJhbCZyPUh0JnVpZD1VU0VSMjgwNTIwMjVVMTkwNTI4MDYmcz1oQg=N0123Nmfowler@mf3.co.uk
This is the same website address as previously.
Recomendation: Don't click on any links, just delete the email. If you have any concerns about your email storage space just login in the usual way you use to your email provider and check your usage within the allowed limits.
Michael Fowler
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