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Just gotten this email from reddit (it doesnt look like a scam mail and its sent from [email protected], and the link is for https://accounts.reddit.com/password

I havnt used reddit for like 2 weeks, and i have mfa enabled....
wtf is this??

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just delete your account, that way everything they send you is known garbage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not OP but I am still waiting for my data request from a few weeks ago!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I finally got mine the other day, so at least it's real and you should get it eventually too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually never did that, I just used one of those plugins to purge my content. I probably should have, but also every time I have done that for other social media, I never went back to look at it anyway.

[–] atfergs 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see an email. Did you forget to post it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hmm.. pretty sure i posted it. I've tried to attach it to this reply

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see it on kbin.social but not on lemmy. I'll post it here:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a general rule of precaution, don't follow links in the email. Instead go to the website directly, maybe from a private or incognito instance, and reset it directly. If the email is valid, you're doing the same thing and if it wasn't you aren't drawing attention to anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It happened to me last year or something. Reset your password and it'll be fine. It was probably leaked.

Or do the smart thing and stay here instead. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have a few accounts that know my email and I didn't get such a message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe data leak somewhere?

Check yourself: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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