URGENT: Your Account Will Be Permanently Deleted in 3 Days

Just delete the email or flag it as spam and go to the Garmin website and sign in and be done with it.

Do you have an email client that can open the email and show the sender in the header info. As an example my email address is xxxxxx@verizon.net and I can get my email using the Microsoft Mail client, directly from AOL.com with a web browser, and lastly through Outlook 2016. The Microsoft email client does not show the full sender info, AOL.com and the Outlook will show the complete sender info. As an example this AM I got a message that my McAfee was expiring. The header info is below, something very obviously not from McAfee (I don;t use it anyway).

McAfee Confirmation Needed

I never click on any boxes, or anything to "reactiviate" an account in any text message or email. I always go to the web site that I know is for the account (do not click the link in the text or email) to check.

These are almost always scam or phishing.....

BTW: Has anyone here EVER had Garmin delete or inactivate their account because of inactivity?

Enough said!

Garmin isn't sending these out or I would have gotten one years ago. I just got one like this about Netflix. Everyone uses different email services but most if not all allow you to click on the "supposed sender" of the email or just click "reply" just like you would to respond to any email you get in your email service to see which email address actually sent it to you. Odds are it's an attempt to gain information (Name, credit card, birthdate and so on). I get several a week for various things. Some I know are fake because I don't use the service mentioned. Some of these are very good fakes and for a second I'm wondering if I paid the bill while others are so poorly put together it's obvious.

Click on any unsolicited email links.

In my email program I can view a “raw” message where I can see info you would normally not see.
I can also hover the mouse pointer over a senders name, email etc and it’s amazing what you may see there. Example: ibzrwgpmbst at ghbmopdfr.ru. When you see such a gobbledygook email address you know it’s garbage.

My original post is to raise awareness of this being sent out.

I've had emails saying that my emails have been held up for various reasons and that I should click on the link to get them released.

I had three in relatively short order. When I viewed the sender, the email address, had a provider name that was totally unrelated to my provider.

I contacted our provider and gave them the senders addresses and shortly after, the emails stopped.

BEWARE!!!

I agree with the above posters about not clicking on links in emails, text messages, or any other mediums. At least not without verifying what the target link url actually is.

Most email software will reveal the true link when hovering over. Pay close attention to the domain, specifically wording before the .com/.org/.net/ etc TLD's (top level domains). Some spammers try to fool by using domains such as account-google.com. This is not a google domain, nor does it have anything to do with google. Otoh, account.google.com is legit as google.com is the main domain while account is its subdomain. Only a period can separate main/sub domains.

My email server will periodically send me emails such as this to indicate something questionable has arrived and been placed in the spam/junk folder. Normally I won't click on either link as it's relatively easy to identify spam.

https://i.imgur.com/qRGgpUY.png

On more questionable emails or if it is indeed ham (not spam), I'll click on the accept or release to inbox to train the spam filter (rspamd). For some mailing lists (few car forums and others), i have to add them to a domain level white list.

At the rate That Garmin is updating maps, we may all get deleted for inactivity!

Delete and move on. Unless you requested it specifically, never divulge info.

About people receiving the warning message from Garmin. If one is worried just go direct to the Garmin.com website and sign in. Or if signed in, sign out and sign back in. Some may also be getting the warning if they have more than one Garmin account.

Thu, 05/27/2021: Action Required: Your (GARMIN) Account Will Be Deleted In 60 Days
Thu, 06/29/2023: Cancellation Of (Garmin) Account
Thu, 07/13/2023: Be Aware Of A PHONY GARMIN Notice

Phishing plain and simple. I hate scammers. Sadly, far too many people rush to give away their personal and financial info.

I have not had any emails about closing my Garmin account but I have had such emails about my accounts with Amazon, Facebook, Gmail, the IRS, store accounts, and Paypal but not Garmin I know they are scams and just delete them. I wish more were done to stop these scammers. They seem to be proliferating.

I would delete (and report spam) that email before they have chances to delete my account. wild west style, lol