Strange marketing/security message from Intuit

May 19, 2016 1 Replies

So, got what looked like spam from Intuit: "Important Update To Quickbooks Desktop".



It appears to be vaguely legit; says that there's security problems if some hacker gets into a computer and steals files, as if that was a surprise. Old versions of Quickbooks don't get security updates, and that's not a surprise, either. Somewhere towards the end they go into the, "Sale, sale, sale!" business and say that things are 70% off these days. Fine, that sounds spammy.



The weird part is that they say that their records show that I've used, or have been using Quickbooks. Which makes not a bit of sense; I've used Home and Business once or twice, when it was cheaper than Quicken Premier down at BJ's. But H&B is a far cry from the full-blown Quickbooks stuff.



Anybody else get this stuff?



KBeck


I HAVE used QB, in the past for a non-profit where I was treasurer, and I didn't get it. I agree that it sounds like spam. What was the email address that sent the message (although, those CAN be spoofed)

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