• Coldgoron@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Haven’t clicked any link yet but it could be possible phishing. Maybe log into my legit discover account first.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It is for sure phishing. Discover isn’t going to send you an email like that. Even loading the graphics was a bad idea.

        Edit: apparently I stand corrected. I’ve gotten security alerts from my credit card companies before, but never with a link like that, and never saying something like “dark web.” Sorry to hear it

        • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          It’s not “for sure phishing” Discover does send emails like that. They have a service where they scan the internet for your personal information, and they sell you credit monitoring, and other stuff to reduce the impact.

          Here’s a screenshot of part of their website for this monitoring.

          Of course it’s ALWAYS a good idea to go to the website, and never click a link on an email from your financial institution, but I’m like 80% sure that this is a legit email.

          Also, your SSN and other financial details have likely been compromised dozens of times, so just having your SSN floating around out there isn’t surprising. It’s a fault in the system for using an unsecured SSN as an identify instead of what it was initially used for.