Lyft

[grahamm1]

Stated to get unexpected emails from no-reply marketing.lyftmail.com. The email address seems legit.

Started with a "thanks for signing up" email. A few days later a "thanks for your payment" email. Now a "One more thing to do before you  start taking rides".

I'm assuming that it's either a scam or someone has accidentally used my email address on a Lytf sign-up (it's happened before with TV Licensing!)

Anyone else had unexpected emails from Lyft?

[Kimberlin · Accepted solution]

@grahamm1 

If I were you, I would take the time and do a Google search and make up your own mind as to whether it's a scam. It doesn't make particularly good reading.

I hope you haven't clicked on any links.

Report the email as a phishing attempt to BT. Don't click on any unsubscribe links either.

[grahamm1]

Hi @Kimberlin The first thing I did was a Google search. There are comments going back 4 years from people that have received unsolicited emails purporting to be from Lyft, but there is usually a give-away (bad spelling, unusual web address etc) but these emails appear to be genuine. If I hover over the address I get a "proper" Lyft email address and Lyft themselves (on their own website) list the email addresses they use and this is one of them. Of course, I've not interacted or clicked on the links at all.

[Kimberlin]

@grahamm1 

Is the email from Lyft personally addressed to you? If not, I highly suspect it is a scam email, unless you have signed up, which I believe you stated you hadn't? Unless someone has of course hacked your email address and used your name to sign up.

Irrespective of whether it is a 'legitimate' email or otherwise, report it as a phishing attempt, delete it and move on from it. I mentioned about not clicking on 'unsubscribe' links, even if it is a legitimate email, because it just indicates to the sender that your email address is a monitored email address.

[WSH]

As you received a mail saying "Thanks for your payment" the definitive test is to check if anything has gone out of your bank accounts.

I get nonsense like this regularly.  So long as no one is helping themselves, I'm quite happy to delete them and move on.