Is this a phishing attempt?

Is this a phishing attempt? Unity should have this info on file and this person is not listed in /people, also I haven't filled out any forms recently.. Here's the email I received.


Thank you for your interest in Unity! We are excited for what is coming in 2015, and I have no doubt you want to work with the latest and greatest products from Unity. Let me connect you with a rep to get you started—or to upgrade your current tools to what's fresh!

If you are ready to take the next step and connect with sales, please reply with the following information and I will have you introduced:

For a Company
Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Name and email of any other contacts you would like to add:
Information on what your company does (platforms you target etc.):

For Individual
Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
What platforms are you/will you be targeting:

Thanks again, and hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers,

Vanessa Martinez | Orders Administrator | Unity Technologies
P 1 415 992 7128

795 Folsom St, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94107
unity3d.com

 

There is no way for us to tell just looking at it, as if it is a phish it is pretty good. Most phishing scams work by getting to to click on a link that takes you to a lookalike website to put in information(username/password). The only link I see in this one leads to Unity3d.com, but it may be that it actually does in the original e-mail.

I think the best trick to figure out if it is a phish is to look at the origin address of the sender. It usually looks a bit different from the original, even if just by a single letter, or a zero(0) instead of an O(letter), things like that.

I'm betting that this is possibly a way for Unity to sort of advertise. They may well have your info, but if they haven't gotten a purchase from you recently, they may simply be "reminding" you that you could spending money you know? It is also possible that you are on a mailing list that Unity keeps around for people who could purchase Unity, but I couldn't tell you how to get on or off of said list if it exists.

 

I would call it phishing, block the address, and move on. Unity has far more sophisticated ways to track your information. Like simply grabbing it off of your forum profile.

 

Thanks Graham.

 

If you can't read mail headers yourself (and you can't at all with Outlook, so get something else), post it to SpamCop or similar services to see what it says about the path it took. Don't submit if it seems legit, of course

If you want to make it easier to tell spam from real mail, make an e-mail alias for each site you use. Make something unique that only UT have, then you know it's probably from them. No, aliases are not plus-addresses.