[Warning] Comments on note asking for "identity verification" are fake | (note phishing, fake sites, security)
✦ What you will learn in this article
How to identify and properly handle fraudulent comments impersonating note management.
This is a record of how I handled it, based on a comment I actually received.
✦ Conclusion: Do not click the link. Just report and block.
I will state the conclusion first.
✅ Never open the URL in the comment
✅ Report as spam and block the user
✅ Report to management if necessary
These three steps complete the response.
✦ What happened
An article I published today
Shortly after publishing the article, I received a comment from an account named "Notification Agent".
To summarize the content, it is as follows.
🔘 "Your identity verification has not been completed, so your features are restricted"
🔘 "Please complete identity verification via the URL below"
🔘 "To prevent further restrictions, please do so as soon as possible"
The signature was "Trust and Safety Team." It looks like a plausible message at first glance, but the destination was an external domain (gogig***.com) unrelated to note.com.
Honestly, for the first few seconds, I wasn't sure if it was real or not. That's how well-written the text was.
✦ Points to identify them
When in doubt, checking these three things was enough.
🔘 The link destination is an unfamiliar domain, not note.com
🔘 It uses urgent language like "identity verification," "hurry," and "restriction"
🔘 It uses unnatural ways to get you to click the URL, such as "copy and paste into your browser"
You should always be suspicious of messages that try to make you feel rushed.
note management will never ask for personal information or credit card details in the comments section. If there is a real problem with your account, you will be contacted via official notifications or email.
✦ Steps I actually took
Do not touch the URL in the comment
Report as spam from the menu in the top right of the comment
Block the poster's account
Report to management (via the inquiry form)
When I checked later,the comment in question had been deleted.
I don't know if it was due to management action or if the poster deleted it themselves,but I felt it was worth reporting.
✦ Ready-to-use: Alert reply template
If the same comment is appearing on other articles, leaving a reply for other readers is one way to handle it.
⚠️【フィッシング詐欺への注意】
このコメントはnote運営を装った偽物です。リンクは踏まないでください。
見分けるポイント：
・リンク先がnote.comではない別ドメイン
・「本人確認」「早く」と急かして焦らせる
・note運営がコメントで個人情報やカード情報を求めることは一切ありません
運営へ報告済みです。同じコメントを見かけた方も、開かず通報・ブロックをおすすめします。✦ Ready-to-use: Report to management template
note運営になりすましたフィッシング詐欺コメントです。
・投稿者名や署名で「信頼と安全チーム」など公式を装っています。
・「アカウントが制限されている」「早く本人確認を」と急かし、note.comとは無関係の外部ドメインへ誘導しています。
・「ブラウザにコピーして貼り付け」とURLを踏ませようとする、フィッシング特有の手口です。
・クレジットカード情報等の詐取を目的としたものと思われます。
読者が被害に遭う恐れがあるため、削除・アカウント対応をお願いします。✦ Summary
Although the wording of this comment was polite, it was a classic phishing attempt that tries to make you panic and directs you to an external URL.
Don't panic, don't click, report and block.
I hope this helps anyone who sees the same comment make an informed decision.
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