Wix Phishing Emails - How to Report
Phishing is a fraudulent technique used to impersonate legitimate trusted sources in order to collect sensitive data such as passwords, account logins or details and credit card numbers. This is not isolated to just Wix websites, all website platforms and contact forms are subject to spammers and scammers. Wix website contact forms, like forms across all web platforms, are often used by spammers and phishers to reach out to website owners to try to sell them services by falsely stating they have bugs or errors in their website code.
See this fake spam submission below, this "Daniel Reeves" character submitted this exact same message using Wix website forms on multiple Wix websites. Note that these types of generic messages are just spam, myself and many other Wix Designers have seen this exact same message go out to other Wix contact forms. There are typically no serious errors or bugs in the Wix websites' code, this is just a phishing attempt to get people to reply.
I recommend to clients that they mark/report these types of emails as spam and delete. Do NOT reply to these messages or click on any of the links.
Attackers also attempt to impersonate Wix or Wix Designers with fake emails and websites in order to target and deceive. To help identify and report suspicious messages pretending to come from Wix, a phishing Wix Designer, or other legitimate sources, check out the link below:
It's important that you do NOT reply to these messages and NOT to click on any of the links, especially if they are asking you to login at the link they provide. Sometimes a link will take you to a page that looks like Wix's login page, but it's really a fake site collecting your login details so they can scam you and get access to your website. I have the same advice for for bank emails, or any companies that send you an email. I always will go directly to the bank or other company website to login, I never use links provided in emails to do so as scammers are clever and while some emails may look real, they are often not and by clicking on the links and logging into these seemingly real but fake websites, this is how they gain access to your accounts. Report any phishy looking emails as spam and delete the emails. You can also search Google for the text from an suspect email to see if it's been used before, which is very common.
Be safe out there!
