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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT EMAIL SCAM

You receive an email that says you violated a copyright license.  The email contains a suspicious link.

The email typically looks something like this…

Here it is in TEXT FORMAT

Hi,

This is Melecia and I am a certified illustrator.

I was surprised, frankly speaking, when I came across my images at your website. If you use a copyrighted image without an owner’s permission, you’d better know that you could be sued by the copyright owner.

It’s illegitimate to use stolen images and it’s so low!

See this document with the links to my images you used at {your-website.com} and my earlier publications to obtain the evidence of my ownership.

Download it now and check this out for yourself:

https://sites.google.{etc….}

If you don’t remove the images mentioned in the document above during the next couple of days, I’ll file a complaint on you to your hosting provider letting them know that my copyrights have been severely infringed and I am trying to protect my intellectual property.

And if it is not enough, trust me I am going to take legal action against you! And you won’t receive the second notice from me.

JUST IGNORE THIS EMAIL.  DELETE IT!  DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS. 

The links will most likely download a virus or some other payload and attempt to infect your PC… or it might ask for payment information to pay for the fake copyright infringement.

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