Potential Scam Email

[pluckyswan]

Hi,

I received an email with a Word document attached from:

CUSA_Social [at] cusa [dot] canon [dot] com

When I searched online, the only result was a post in this discussion form that was edited on November 6th. Is it scam? 

[Tintype_18]

The URL looks fishy to me.

[normadel]

Scam of some kind. You didn't open the attachment, did you?

[Danny · Accepted solution]

Thanks for joining the conversation, pluckyswan!  We appreciate your concern and we can confirm that that is indeed a legitimate email address from Canon USA.  Internally, we often abbreviate our business division as "CUSA" which is why that appears multiple times in the address.  In fact, I just checked our sent mail folder for that address and I see an email that went out to the address you used for your forum account.  This one's the real deal!

Hope this helps!

[MDRPhoto]

I received the below email the other day claiming to be an influencer/ ambassador collab. It came from a gmail account. 

Hello,

I am Joey Snyder , brand partnership manager for "Canon USA”. So we are just launching our influencer/ambassador campaign and really want you involved. We love the work that you do, we really appreciate your style and confidence. Your social media profile is great! We think our audience would find your content very interesting. We discovered you from explore page on Instagram and we also saw that you have tagged us on few of your posts and we became interested in content. You would get free monthly packages (5 items of your choice per month), your own exclusive discount code to share, shout-outs and reposts to our Instagram and website!

We will be sending you out free PR packages every month, this means you will get to show off our newest Products completely free with no catch! in return just tag us on your post either using or just showing off the product! You will also be getting a payment of $5000( this is because of your social media engagements) per post for a start subsequently we may increase as you grow your audience and make the best post we want to see. You will be paid via bank transfer or Zelle every time you post a shout-out of our newest brand product, using or showing them off on your page. We expect a maximum and minimum of five posts from you in a month.

Note: this is a paid collaboration, and this campaign's payment will depend on your social medias engagements as it is still low but as we work together it will get a lot better. If this first 3 months goes well, we may consider making it a long term collaboration. Kindly let us know if you accept our offer and want to work with us. Thank you.

Kind regards

Canon USA

Joey Snyder

[SamanthaW]

Hi there!

That is not a Canon USA email address, please do not engage with them further, as it is a scam! 

Thanks for reaching out to check! 

[BurnUnit]

It sure sounds like someone is phishing for your bank routing, Zelle, Venmo or Paypal account information. (So they know where to send your "$5,000 payment!")

Personally, I would RUN AWAY! A lot of these online banking apps seem a bit "iffy" to me anyways.