{"id":1476,"date":"2009-09-10T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:17:09","slug":"adobe-upgrade-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/adobe-upgrade-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Upgrade Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1486\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/adobe-upgrade-scam\/fakeadobe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?fit=500%2C364\" data-orig-size=\"500,364\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fake Adobe Scam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?fit=240%2C174\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?fit=500%2C364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1486\" title=\"Fake Adobe Scam\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?resize=500%2C364\" alt=\"Fake Adobe Scam\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fakeAdobe.jpg?resize=300%2C218 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got an email from what looked like Adobe. Adobe Systems Inc. Title: &#8220;Your Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended trial is almost over. What&#8217;s next?&#8221; It was an HTML email that looks identical to that of other email that I have received from Adobe. The only thing that was odd, was that it told me my trial for CS4 Extended was up, and they had a link for an upgrade. I recently tried Lightroom, but not CS4. Hmmmm&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hovered over the links and got an address of www.adobeinfo.com. I thought that was strange. I went to www.adobeinfo.com and got some sort of privacy page thing. Then I googled it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutus.org\/AdobeInfo.com\">http:\/\/www.aboutus.org\/AdobeInfo.com<\/a> that said it was a phishing site. I then tried further google fu, but couldn&#8217;t find people suggesting this was a phishing site. It sure seems vary odd though. I wouldn&#8217;t upgrade through them anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from what looked like Adobe. Adobe Systems Inc. Title: &#8220;Your Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended trial is almost over. 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