(Sorry, took me a bit of trying to get the image up.) Faithlife, it is your responsibility to make your email service work.
You really think that telling us we have to click links in emails is sensible?
An email like that, you half expect it to be from an @gmail.com domain…
I haven’t received that email 📧
Anybody from LOGOS verifying this?
I also received this email. That looks as close to a phishing scam as I've seen. Anybody that says "click any links in our emails" is suspicious.
Can you forward the email to me as an attachment, and I'll take a look?
My email address is firstname.lastname@faithlife.com
Thanks.
I also got this email. It came from: communications@faithlifemail.com
Is it spam/phishing?
Oddly it asks for you to add: communications@faithlife.net to your email contacts which doesn't match the above.
I just received it! Cyber security 101 violation! Don’t click on links even if they come from people you seem to know. We already get free tips and tricks, why click on links to receive those? Why do we need to help you build your reputation with this new email platform? What does that even mean?
DAL
Clumsy communication, but it does make sense.
Why do we need to help you build your reputation with this new email platform?
Because we want to continue receiving email offers (such as the birthday code). From my experience, email providers generally consider everyone who sends more than about 1,000 messages per day to their network as spam. Starting with just a few messages from the new sender actually seems like a really good strategy.
That's the whole point of it. It's a new sender.
The "faithlifemail.com" address makes me think it's a phishing email. I've forwarded mine to Mark.
Oddly it asks for you to add: communications@faithlife.net to your email contacts which doesn't match the above. That's the whole point of it. It's a new sender.
Then why is Mark Barnes asking for the email to be sent to him? Shouldn’t he just tell us, “oh yeah guys don’t worry it’s safe we’re doing this new thing.”
I see what you are saying. I just thought it was odd it came from faithlifeMAIL.COM but they wanted faithlife.NET to be added. I wasn't too suspicious about it but thought it strange to just put it in a folder and wait. I wish FL would chime in on this though.
I entered faithlifemail.com into Google Chrome, then saw a small "i" in a circle next to it. Hovering on it this is what I got:
Looks like a good email to ignore.
And the source of Faithlife customer email IDs?
I initially thought this must be FL is doing for clicks for some silly reason. If it is actually a security breach where an outside party got access to our email addresses, this is much more serious.
The lack of a prompt official response/action from FL is not a good look either.
Looks like a good email to ignore. I initially thought this must be FL is doing for clicks for some silly reason. If it is actually a security breach where an outside party got access to our email addresses, this is much more serious. The lack of a prompt official response/action from FL is not a good look either.
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http://faithifemail.com is not secure. However, https://faithlifemail.com is secure. Http connections are never secure. You don't even have to enter the address into a browser to test this, as it is a given fact...
Also, whether a webserver is secure or not is entirely independent of the security of a mailserver, even when they share the same address.
Also, there have been other mailings from FL from the same address before, such as "Save 40% or more off TOTC/TNTC (48 vols.)" and "👀 People are loving these deals".
Therefore, I don't see any concerns whatsoever that the message originated anywhere except FL, or that the mail server might be compromised.
No one expects him to know what everyone else is doing every day! So your comment is unnecessary!
I should have added a 😉 to the comment. I wasn't expecting that it would be taken seriously.
You actually had me laughing!
Suggestion:
Faithlife.com should sell The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. I needed to search for the excellent chapter on "Jumping to Conclusions." Alas, not having the book handy in Logos, I could not.
Here is what we know. Some of us (#notme) got emails that seem iffy. Might be something phishy. Or not. Mark Barnes is casting a dragnet to haul in a draught. He might come up empty; more likely, He will provide an "Ohhhh, now I see" explanation. Faithlife is a good company. Good people. The internet is the internet. Humans are human.
Meanwhile, as we meditate in silence, without benefit of The Phantom Tollbooth in Logos, I suggest this excellent study on the chapter about Jumping to Conclusions, which is so helpful to me:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-phantom-tollbooth-quotes-about-conclusions.html .
All we want to know is if its a genuine email, you don't think its at all worrying that after more than 24 hours no one is able to tell us what the answer is?
It really is not asking much, given the impact that any potential data breach could have.
