Bt Email

[Giggsie]

Anyone with a BT email get an email asking to verify address within 72 hrs or email address will be blocked? Something doesn’t look right to me.

[bobbinwales]

Scam. Bet it just had your email address but not your name

[Barmaid]

All the time. ignore it, its NOT from BT.

[Giggsie]

It does say hello initial and surname but just a bit iffy will just ignore thank you

[perseverer]

Genuine emails would most likely tell you the information they already had and only ask you to act if it needed updating.

[Maydup]

It’s definitely a scam.

[Buenchico]

>>> "It does say hello initial and surname".

Well done on looking out for one of the tell-tale signs of scams. (i.e. anything that starts "Dear Customer' is likely to be very dodgy). However if, say, your email address is [email protected] (or something like [email protected]) it's not exactly rocket science for a scammer (or the software that they're using) to work out that you're 'J Simpson'.

It's a classic scam. (Scammers like to rush people into doing things by announcing very short deadlines before something nasty will happen).

However, if you still want to check, examine the full headers for the email. The way to do so varies depending upon how you receive your emails but if you're using BT's webmail service, open the email and then go to the Menu to select View > Message > Raw Source. That will show the real email address that the email came from. It'll probably be a Gmail one, or similar, and it seems safe to bet that BT won't be using Gmail!

[Giggsie]

Got another of these emails today did as buenchico said and it came from here…[email protected] just a warning to others SCAM

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the feedback.

You've now mastered a useful little trick for checking out potentially dodgy emails. Well done!

[Peter Pedant]

yeah frequently
scam
send to [email protected]
or [email protected]

[bobbinwales]

do you think bt will be able to do anything if you report it though... apart from warn people.... cant see what they can do to shut down the scammers, they can just carry on with maybe a tweak to there username, they'll have lotsa spares