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Post by Palustris on Jul 9, 2023 8:15:22 GMT 1
Had one of those emails supposedly from a friend asking if I would buy something for him from Amazon. Knew it was a Scam as it was signed with his full forename which my friend never used. Looks like his Email address has been hacked. What I was wondering was how the scammer could get to read any reply I might have sent if I had not been aware?
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Post by Miss Piggin on Jul 9, 2023 10:36:41 GMT 1
I would imagine they can intercept emails, or the email address is slightly different from your friend's.
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Post by koalagirl on Jul 9, 2023 11:33:59 GMT 1
At work we all had to do a course on how to recognise scam emails. They often have an email address in which the spelling is slightly wrong.
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Post by Butternut on Jul 9, 2023 20:47:41 GMT 1
It also depends if your friend uses the same passwords across various sites as he uses for his email account. That is the downfall of quite a few people as they can access the email account online if the password is the same. I spotted this example of a fake email the other week which fooled my brain for a bit as I didn't automatically spot the difference.
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Post by Miss Piggin on Jul 13, 2023 11:31:30 GMT 1
Which? have created a scam alert service. If you save this page as a bookmark, you can check it whenever you like and it tells you about all the latest scams and what to watch out for. Which? Scam alerts
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Post by peonymad on Jul 14, 2023 11:29:03 GMT 1
Thanks Miss P. I have had the TSB one, realised it was not genuine, as for offers of tax repayments, HMRC does not offer rebates, you have to apply for them!
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Post by Palustris on Jul 14, 2023 14:11:45 GMT 1
Had a couple of Scam emails today. 1 From Boots (claiming to be at least) offering a free electric toothbrush, and 1 from Screwfix with some offer or other. Neither genuine as the addresses of both were in the USA.
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Post by Juliet on Jul 15, 2023 22:36:32 GMT 1
I have had several recently purporting to be from Sainsbury's, subject Registration Confirmation, which got through my spam filter into my Inbox. I didn't look at them because I hovered the cursor over the sender and it clearly wasn't Sainsbury's.
Just looked at my spam box and I have the one purporting to be from Screwfix too, along with ones supposedly from Curry's, B&Q, and Hermes (whoever sent that one is a bit out of date!).
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Post by Juliet on Jul 15, 2023 22:39:09 GMT 1
Butternut that fooled my brain for ages! Good job most of them are not that convincing! Not that I would click on a link in an email that said it was from a bank even if I thought it was probably genuine, but still.
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Post by Palustris on Jul 18, 2023 11:28:01 GMT 1
We keep getting a scam email from BootsRewards. But since it has an msn.com address rather than Boots.mail and the address is in America it cannot be anything but a scam.
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Post by peonymad on Jul 18, 2023 17:21:40 GMT 1
There are so many like that aren't there. My emails recognise most of them, but these days I often have one that sits in my inbox.
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Post by Juliet on Aug 7, 2023 21:32:09 GMT 1
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Post by Juliet on Aug 15, 2023 12:44:42 GMT 1
Just to say, if anyone is ever tempted to get a smart watch which is supposed to measure your blood sugar and blood pressure please don’t waste your money - they are a con. We keep getting people asking about them on diabetes forum, they seem to be everywhere at the moment.
The small print says this is not a medical device - it is basically a toy which gives an approximation of what the things they are supposed to measure might look like but doesn’t actually measure them. There is no non-invasive way of measuring blood sugar, and the best way to measure blood pressure is with a blood pressure monitor with an upper-arm cuff.
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Post by Palustris on Aug 15, 2023 13:29:27 GMT 1
Maybe I will buy one with some of the 7 million dollars that I have just been offered by a friendly person called Dorothy.
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Post by Palustris on Sept 6, 2023 10:24:23 GMT 1
Call this morning claiming to be from BT Security saying that someone was trying to use our Internet connection. The number was a genuine BT number, but the caller did not know who the account holder is, so a scam call. If in doubt, put the phone down and ring BT on their free number.
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Post by Palustris on Sept 13, 2023 13:43:55 GMT 1
Just had the Scam email saying that a parcel could not be delivered. Pay to have it re-delivered. Post Office never ask for money like that so a definite phishing attempt.
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Post by Palustris on Sept 21, 2023 16:09:33 GMT 1
Just had a warning that there was an attempt to upload malware to my computer from this site. The malware was from Bestgraph. Not sure what they do though. Seems to be a photo hosting site.
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Post by peonymad on Sept 22, 2023 8:09:15 GMT 1
Thanks Pal.
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Post by penny on Sept 24, 2023 13:55:11 GMT 1
There's a scam going around -purporting to be from a Wilkos website, claiming to have a massive clearance sale with ridiculous low prices on offer. I think this has been going on for a while, so don't click on any links you see or be fooled into attempting to purchase anything from it. Wilkos deny having such a sale.
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Post by jo4eyes on Sept 24, 2023 15:32:00 GMT 1
Added to which the Wilko website ‘went’ a while back.
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Post by Aspidistra on Nov 6, 2023 20:37:45 GMT 1
Has anyone been locked out of Facebook? I only started using it fairly recently but it has locked me out of my account due to ‘suspicious activity'. It won’t let me log back in without showing some ID, which I am not willing to do. Has anyone else been genuinely locked out? It is when I try to go on the app, not an email.
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Post by Miss Piggin on Nov 6, 2023 23:08:43 GMT 1
I don't use Facebook, but maybe it's because you are in a different country?
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Post by koalagirl on Nov 7, 2023 8:13:49 GMT 1
I've never been locked out of FB even when I was in Australia and India.
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Post by koalagirl on Nov 10, 2023 18:15:00 GMT 1
We keep getting phishing emails at work. Several of us have received them over the last week. Interestingly they have all been different. One guy received an email saying he had failed a phishing test and needed to take a refresher course on IT security! He realised it was a phishing mail when he hovered over the link and saw if was actually a link to FB. How cheeky was that!!
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Post by koalagirl on Nov 10, 2023 18:16:55 GMT 1
I got one which said it as from HR with a link to changes in the working from home policy but I recognised it was not the correct HR email address.
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Post by Butternut on Nov 11, 2023 20:39:04 GMT 1
I got one which said it as from HR with a link to changes in the working from home policy but I recognised it was not the correct HR email address. Is your IT department looking into the incidents? Seems like a system hack to me.
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Post by koalagirl on Nov 12, 2023 14:43:06 GMT 1
We always report anything suspicious to IT security. This happens every now and then, but we don't normally all get different ones.
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Post by Palustris on Nov 17, 2023 16:42:37 GMT 1
Had the "You have been going to Porn sites and I have downloaded images from your camera of you watching them. Pay up or I will publish" Email today. Reported it to report@phishing.gov.uk. Not a worry for me as I have never been on a porn site, do not have a camera on the computer and don't much care if they do publish, but it could be worrying for some folks.
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Post by Aspidistra on Nov 20, 2023 21:23:17 GMT 1
My guest has just been a victim of a scam. She got an email from a friend asking her to buy Amazon vouchers as she doesn’t have an Amazon account. My friend bought the vouchers and later found out her friend's account had been hacked. Amazing how easy it is to be scammed. My pal is incredibly intelligent but she just thought her friend was wanting a favour. She has lost £350.
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Post by peonymad on Nov 21, 2023 11:40:07 GMT 1
I've had bank email warning of Black Friday scams. I think the ones that irritate me most are the apparent scam warnings from companies I do use that are actually scams!
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