I want to share another GoDaddy account phishing email that is playing on the ICANN verification requirements to get people to open the email and possibly click a link to a phishing website. One giveaway is the link to a non-GoDaddy owned website that tries to give people the impression it is associated with the company. The email subject is “Immediate Verification Required” and it may have one of your domain names listed as well.

I won’t mention the website used to avoid giving it publicity, but if you click any links (or paste links into a browser), make sure the website is the one you intend to visit. In addition, the GoDaddy email should have your name or registrant name, and any email requiring action should have a corresponding notification in your account to confirm that it is an outstanding issue.

If you ever have a question about whether or not a domain name is a phishing email, or if you know it is, you can report a phishing email to GoDaddy very easily and they can confirm.

Here is the content of the email:

Last week, Forbes’ announced its 2014 list of the 50 Most influential Chief Marketing Officers, and a domain industry CMO is included in this year’s list. Barb Rechterman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at GoDaddy, and she was ranked by Forbes as the 18th most influential CMO for 2014.

The list includes Chief Marketing Officers from some of the largest and most well known companies in the world. Other CMOs you may recognize on this year’s list include Phil Schiller of Apple (#1), Kevin Krone of Southwest Airlines (#14), Anne Finucane of Bank of America (#20), Ariel Kelman of Amazon (#30), and Lorraine Twohill of Google (#36).

According to Rechterman’s LinkedIn profile, she has been GoDaddy

A few months ago, I reported what seems to be a Register.com account phishing email. This morning, Bill Sweetman from Name Ninja reported a similar type of phishing email. The difference with this reported email is that it is targeting GoDaddy account customers. I presume there may be similar emails targeting customers of other domain registrars, so if you see something similar, it is most likely an illegitimate phishing email.

With domain registrar account phishing emails, the sender tries to get people to click a link to a website they control that asks for account information (or may possibly download malware) from a domain name registrant. Once a hacker has the account holder’s login credentials, they may be able to make changes to the account or even hijack / steal domain names from the account. Oftentimes, they are able to do this without the domain owner even knowing, making it even more problematic.

To reduce the chance of this happening to you, I recommend adding the highest level of security at your accounts. This includes two factor authentication and additional account or domain name locks to prevent unauthorized transfers. In addition, you want to use different passwords (and logins) at different registrars, and you should not click on links within marketing or other emails from registrars unless you are certain the email is legitimate.

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