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Preston H Community Member

email from Upwork: "need to update business details"

I received an email message ostensibly from "Upwork.com".

 

But when I clicked on the button within the email message, the page does not actually exist.

 

Screen Shot 2021-08-18 at 8.05.54 AM.png

 

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To me, this appears to be either:

- a very well-crafted, sophisticated, convincing phishing attemp

[or]

- an authentic email from an Upwork faction, presenting a link that doesn't work.

 

Update:
I tried the link again and it took me to a page within Upwork.com.

 

So now I'm thinking that there was a temporary technical glitch. Or perhaps an intermittent technical glitch. Now I see this:

 

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This led me to a series of about 10 screens which asked questions about my Upwork business activities.

 

I no longer believe that this was a phishing attempt.

 

I hope that nobody who sees this attempts to create a support ticket on my behalf.

 

I don't need any assistance, but I decided to leave the error message in place in case anybody wants to look into it on behalf of others.

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Robert's avatar
Robert Y Community Member

Preston said:

 

To me, this appears to be either:

- a very well-crafted, sophisticated, convincing phishing attempt...

 

Don't start giving them ideas. 

Andrea's avatar
Andrea G Community Manager

Hi Preston,

 

Thank you for sharing your experience accessing the link within this email. We're glad you were able to access the page and complete the steps. While it does look like this was a temporary glitch, we'll nevertheless flag it to the team so that they can check.
 
~Andrea