Phishing

[Caran]

i have had three further emails from Barclays saying such an amount transaction is complete.
i have also had one from Paypal saying they have had to close our account due to a high level of dubious attempts to access our account.
They want me to fill out a form giving all my details of passwords and bank account details, obviously I have not done this. i seem to have a lot more gremlins on my laptop than on my ipad.
Ipad has been out of internet connection for 3 days now. I have someone coming to look at it tomorrow hopefully.

[squarebear]

Delete them all. They are all common spam emails trying to get information from you. As I mentioned earlier, unless they mention you by name rather than "Dear Paypal Customer", don't give them a second look.

[Caran]

Neither mentioned us by name, butin the Paypal in the line where they put the email address they have left in a long list of other email addresses that they have sent the spam too as well.

[squarebear]

Yes, that's a common trait too.

Another good tip is if they ask you to click on a link, hover your mouse over the link and the address will appear at the bottom of your browser.

The link may say something like www.paypal.com/siginin but the actual website will most likely be something like: www.scammers.com/login

[BlueToffee]

Interesting, the only spam I get offers me fake Rolex, Viagra, penis extensions or local hook ups!

[chrissa1]

Most of these organisations have phishing email addresses so that you can forward them direct to the bank etc. That's what I do, without opening any attachment or clicking in anything.

[boxtops]

Don't even open them, caran - any genuine emails will have your name on - don't open the links to look at any attachments, that's highly risky and can let the gremlins in to your computer.

I forward them to the various organisations' phishing report addresses - Paypal's is [email protected], Barclays is [email protected]

PayPal always come back and confirm it's phishing.

I get these all the time - just report and delete them.

[squarebear]

No point in forwarding them. Although it may make you feel better, I guarantee that nobody will be doing anything about them.

[boxtops]

Maybe not, SB, but a while back we were told to, so the organisations could try to find the source. There are probably too many going around now for them to even bother.

[squarebear]

They will not be able to find the source and if they ever found one, there would be another 100 to stop. However, if it makes people feel better then by all means forward them on.

[Caran]

Already deleted them squarebear.

[squarebear]

Excellent Caran. That's the best thing to do.

I often fill them in with fake details which will confuse them for a while and protect the people who actually fill these things in but I wouldn't advise it to anyone else unless they know what they are doing and are suitably protected.

I genuinely don't understand how people in this day and age fall for these things. If someone was to walk up to you in the street and ask you for your credit card details, surely nobody would give them? This is the same thing.

[trt]

I had 2 from Nat-west today and get PayPal and what BlueToffee
gets.
Keep deleting/sending bank ones to Phishing but still get them daily.

[DTCwordfan]

I wish I had a penis extension the size that half of them are promising.....

In short, anything that asks you for your password is false.......forward it to your fraud dept at your financial institution or wherever.

Wonder if it works with AB and the Ed?

[daffy654]

I have had at least 5 a day from scammers pretending to be Nat West for the last two weeks, I also have a few Apple ID ones. Its seems odd that they only started up again recently after many months with only the odd one or two.

[Sparkles62]

I had a 'Barclays' one this morning, it was full of spelling mistakes and was just deleted straight away.

[Hopkirk]

I once got one from the Ryoal Bank of Scotland.