Over the past few months, a large-scale cloud storage subscription scam campaign has been targeting users worldwide with repeated emails falsely warning recipients that their photos, files, and accounts are about to be blocked or deleted due to an alleged payment failure.
Based on numerous emails seen by BleepingComputer, the campaign has escalated over the past few months, with people receiving multiple versions of the scam each day, all appearing to be sent by the same scammers.
While the email text, the messages all attempt to create a sense of urgency by claiming a payment problem or storage issue must be resolved immediately, or people's files will be deleted or blocked.
The cloud storage scam email campaign
The phishing emails originate from a wide range of domains, with most appearing to be randomly generated for the spam campaign, as shown in the sample list below.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [name][email protected]
The emails themselves use a wide variety of subject lines, all designed to scare a recipient into opening the email.
Example subject lines seen by BleepingComputer include:
Immediate Action Required. Payment Declined
Cloud Storage 1TB: Payment overdue
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