Phishing emails impersonating theme partners

Seeing the same.

We have only received one report so far, and the merchant was unconvinced. That said, the email was convincing and the timing overlaps with dot-dev and hackdays.

I find this alarming enough to put a banner on our homepage saying “we will never email you from a gmail account”. I recommend other theme developers do the same, at least until Monday.

This is what the phishing emails look like:

There is no “Samuel A” at Groupthought.

I am not sure what the goal these phishing attacks are trying to achieve once they get access to a merchant store.