Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now • Hacker News Board

Re: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

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Post by shakibamoshiri » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 12:28 PM UTC

Got it this morning both mail INBOX and Github notif

Re: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

#32

Post by mavdotj » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 1:43 PM UTC

Just got one a minute ago from ycombinator-notify/ycombinator and a bot named mail-notifaction-automatic

Re: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

#33

Post by rossant » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

Also got it. Redirects to https://y-comblnator.com/apply which is still live. CAREFUL this is a scam.

Re: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

#34

Post by jakesomething » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 7:57 AM UTC

e1g wrote: post #28

To remove resulting notifications, see instructions here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174283#discuss... These spam repositories have been deleted, but I still had lingering notifications stuck on GitHub, and I couldn't see them in the UI to remove them (but the small blue notification dot was constantly on). The API hack resolved this problem.

Came here looking for this. Thank you - removed the annoying blue notification now.