Plex VPN Service SPAM Email

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Just wanted to let the Plex team and others know that I just received what looks like a spam email titled “New Plex VPN Service”. It appears to be spam. The email states the following:

Plex reveals new VPN business www.MySafeVPN.com
Plex has been used as a media platform for a long time now with users mainly accessing content they’ve got saved on a local media server. However, with the recent change in US privacy bills, UK privacy laws and more, it is now more difficult to fill these media servers with the content that users want to enjoy.

Plex media server has now released a new service called www.MySafeVPN.com . This service will help users stay anonymous on the internet so they can download what they want, view what they want, browse where they want, without anyone looking over their shoulder. Internet access and media access can both now be completely anonymous using the new Plex VPN service which can be purchased at MySafeVPN.com .

Prices are currently on a discounted rate for today in order to allow users to get a chance to try the product. If you are interested, go to www.MySafeVPN.com and purchase your subscription today for just $9.99 . The team will help get you aligned with the service and you will be setup within minutes.

Do you have questions about our new service? Well because we wanted to make a big impact on the market, we stepped up our customer service from DAY 1. You can reach us via phone call OR SMS at +1-877-745-1560 . Get in touch with us today and we’ll answer all of your questions!

Plex & MySafeVPN Team
Sales@mysafevpn.com
1-877-745-1560

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I just got the same thing. Appears they obtained an e-mail list of Plex users.

Also, it should be obvious, but checking the e-mail source none of the links lead where they are labeled.

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I also got this spam and reported it to my mail provider.

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I received this as well. I was just looking for someone to contact at Plex, glad you beat me to it!

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I have just received this email too.

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i got it too

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Same here… Did Plex have a user breach? :frowning:

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same as the others, received the email as well.

attached is the entire email - headers and all.

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Unfortunately I got this crap email too.

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Yep, got it as well. Clearly spam, but hopefully plex send an explanation. I hope it wasn’t a security breach (though it surely points to that).

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Yep, got it too. Hopefully someone from the plex team chimes in soon.

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This would be GREAT to have a PLEX VPN…but SPAM emails suck!

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This is *absolutely not* a Plex affiliated service or offering
REF: Plex Staff comment on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/638q7v/did_anyone_else_get_spammed_about_a_new_plex_vpn/dfs54qe/

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Hey everyone. This is not us! We were also taken by surprise as many Plex employees received the same email, myself included. We’re seeing very similar emails going out from the same outfit to former Boxee users as well. We are investigating and reporting them to their service and mail providers, but believe this could be related to the 2015 forums breach.

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then any chance you can send an email to the corresponding users?

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@kinoCharlino said:
Hey everyone. This is not us! We were also taken by surprise as many Plex employees received the same email, myself included. We’re seeing very similar emails going out from the same outfit to former Boxee users as well. We are investigating and reporting them to their service and mail providers, but believe this could be related to the 2015 forums breach.

Thank you for the clarification, Is there a email or another system Plex Staff/Legal would like these messages forwarded to for trademark enforcement purposes?

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I also got this spam

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Got this too, and clicked the link, but shut down Chrome immediately when I saw the the link in the address bar. (before site was loaded)
Did anyone else click the link?

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Got the email too.
Well… Time for another password change. Just to make sure.

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this is probably from a old hack from 2015 check your email here https://haveibeenpwned.com/