Is this invitation real?
Scams copy the look of an invitation because it is one of the few emails people still open. Here is how to tell a real InviteDrop invitation from one pretending to be us, and why the wording of the email is not the thing to check.
The short answer
A real InviteDrop invitation comes from noreply@send.invitedrop.com, opens a page on invitedrop.com, and never asks a guest to sign in, enter a password or pay anything. If any of those three is not true, it is not from InviteDrop, no matter how familiar the email looks.
- Always from
- noreply@send.invitedrop.com
- Sender name reads
- Host’s name, then via InviteDrop
- Link always opens
- invitedrop.com/i/
The checks, in order of reliability
Ordered by how much each one can be trusted, not by how obvious it looks. The first two are the ones an impersonator cannot take with them.
1.Check who the email is from
- InviteDrop sends every invitation from noreply@send.invitedrop.com, and the sender name always reads "<host's name> via InviteDrop". Nothing we send comes from any other address.
- The scam we were sent on 2026-10-15 came from eregdir@gpd1943.org and the sender name was the host's name on its own, with no "via InviteDrop" after it.
An impersonator cannot send from our domain. They can copy every word of the message, and in this case they did, but the address in the From line is the one part of an email they have to replace with their own.
2.Check where the button goes before you tap it
- Every real InviteDrop invitation opens a page on invitedrop.com, at an address beginning invitedrop.com/i/. That is true of the View the Card button, the envelope image and the Add to calendar link.
- In the scam, all three pointed at the same shortened link on a domain that was not ours. A shortened link in an invitation is not something InviteDrop does.
On a computer, rest the pointer over the button and the destination appears at the bottom of the window. On a phone, press and hold the button instead of tapping it and the full address appears. If it does not begin with invitedrop.com, it is not us.
3.InviteDrop never asks a guest to sign in or pay
- Opening an InviteDrop invitation and replying to it needs no account, no password and no payment details. A guest taps the button, sees the card, and chooses a reply.
- A page that asks you to sign in to view an invitation, confirm your email password, or enter card details to RSVP is not InviteDrop, whatever the email looked like.
This is the step where a scam actually takes something from you. Everything before it is just presentation.
4.Do not judge it by the wording
- InviteDrop invitations use the same wording for everyone, so the words in a real one are public and anybody can copy them.
- The scam reproduced our email word for word, down to the punctuation, including the line about replying to the email not updating the guest list.
This is the reason the usual advice about checking how an email is written does not help here. The message read correctly because it was ours. Only the address it came from and the address it pointed at were different.
5.When it looks like it came from someone you know
- A real InviteDrop invitation names the host, and replies to it go to that host's own email address.
- The scam arrived under the name of a friend whose email account had been broken into, which is what made it convincing enough to be forwarded on to a family member to open.
A compromised account sends real mail from a real person. If an invitation from someone you know feels wrong, contact them some other way, by phone or a new message you start yourself, rather than replying to the email or using anything inside it.
If you already tapped the link
Opening a page is not usually enough to cause harm on its own, and most browsers block a page they already know to be a scam and show a warning instead of loading it. What matters is whether you typed anything into it.
- If you entered a password, change that password now, and turn on two-factor authentication for the account if it is not on already.
- If you entered card details, contact your bank.
- If the invitation appeared to come from someone you know, tell them. Their email account may have been broken into, and everyone in their address book is getting the same message.
Report a fake to us
Forward the message to hello@invitedrop.com. Forwarding it is far more useful to us than describing it, because the forwarded copy carries the address it was sent from and the address its links really point at, which is what tells us what is being imitated. We read every one.
This page exists because somebody did exactly that.
Common questions
What email address does InviteDrop send from?
InviteDrop sends every invitation, reminder and receipt from noreply@send.invitedrop.com. The sender name reads "<host's name> via InviteDrop". We never send from any other address, so an invitation from a different address did not come from us.
Do I need an account to open an InviteDrop invitation?
No. InviteDrop guests never need an account, a password or a payment to open an invitation or to RSVP. Anything asking a guest for those is not InviteDrop.
What does a real InviteDrop invitation link look like?
A real link opens a page on invitedrop.com, beginning invitedrop.com/i/ followed by the event's own address. InviteDrop does not use link shorteners in invitations, so a shortened link is a sign the message is not ours.
I got an invitation from a friend and it looks wrong. What should I do?
Do not tap the button, and do not forward it to someone else to open for you. Contact your friend another way, by phone or a message you start yourself, and ask whether they sent it. An email account that has been broken into sends real mail from a real person, so the name being right does not make the message right.
I already tapped the link. What now?
Opening a page is not usually enough to cause harm on its own, and most browsers block a known scam page before it loads and show a warning instead. What matters is whether you entered anything. If you typed a password, change that password now and turn on two-factor authentication for the account. If you entered card details, contact your bank.
How do I report a fake InviteDrop invitation?
Forward it to hello@invitedrop.com. Forwarding the message itself is far more useful to us than describing it, because it carries the sending address and the real link destination. We read every one.
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