Spoofing eSnips

I’ve recently started seeing emails that have an eSnips-looking address in the “from” line (like info@esnips.com) but have absolutely nothing to do with any of us here at eSnips.  The messages usually focus on a supposed suspension, password change or some other invented security problem.  These emails also have a suspicious attachment, a zip file which I haven’t even tried unzipping but which I am sure is not going to help my computer any.  See below for an email I received a while ago.

Anyway, as a result, we’ve changed the way that emails are displayed on your profile page so that spoofers and spammers will have a harder time automatically combing eSnips for addresses.  From now, instead of displaying the address as yourname@esnips.com we display yourname at esnips.com.  Every human should be able to read that, but we hope the machines won’t.

Of course, these spoofing emails shouldn’t be confused with the real deal.  Our service@esnips.com email address sends you a notification email whenever someone adds a file or comment to your folders.