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Post by Butternut on Apr 19, 2021 0:30:19 GMT 1
It is a common one Pal - based on fear tactics for those who may have looked at dodgy sites, I just delete them, I have had several all saying the same thing. The email address must have been compromised somewhere, perhaps from another family member opening a dodgy one, I get quite a few from old friends email accounts with links saying my name and then look at this, it only takes one person to think they are genuinely from that friend and they have access to the email contacts list, nothing more. If you've used a repeat password for emails change them.
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Post by peonymad on Apr 19, 2021 11:37:09 GMT 1
There are so many scam emails these days, and I find my email system does not always put them in the right folder and they end up in the inbox. I have a report and a block option in outlook, which I make pretty much daily use of. I then forget about them!
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Post by peonymad on Oct 8, 2021 13:57:09 GMT 1
Today's at least is new! purporting to be from the NHS, yet only using your email instead of name, basically asking you to respond within 24 hours by clicking a yes or no link in the email to accept a Covid vaccine passport allowing travel. Also, in Dorset a woman using what's app got caught on the I'm a family member, and my phone is damaged I need £££ transferred quickly. Fortunately her bank retrieved the money, then she got a message wit an invoice to send payment! Be sceptical folk.
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Post by Juliet on Dec 21, 2021 18:55:01 GMT 1
I got one of the usual "your account has been suspended" type of things purporting to be from Amazon today - the reason I mention it is because it got through the spam filter on my computer and when I hovered my cursor over the sender's name it was no- reply@amazon dot co dot uk rather than no-reply@amazon dot co dot uk, the only visible difference being a space! I'm not sure Amazon use the no-reply one at all, actually - most of their emails are something like shipment-tracking or auto-confirm @amazon dot co dot uk - but either way the one I got today was a very sneaky fake.
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Post by koalagirl on Dec 21, 2021 20:45:55 GMT 1
Gosh! I must admit that I've got to the stage where I assume any email I was not expecting is a scam.
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Post by peonymad on Dec 21, 2021 22:13:54 GMT 1
Thanks Juliet, I am always suspicious of Amazon emails. I invariably check on the Amazon web site. I have not had so many spam emails make it in to the inbox more recently, at one time there seemed to be an inordinate number of scam emails.
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Post by Juliet on Dec 21, 2021 23:41:28 GMT 1
I always assume that sort of thing is spam too, but I tend to hover my cursor over the sender name just to be sure before deleting it - usually that makes it very clear it's spam, but this one made me think for a minute! I also went to Amazon site via my bookmarks to check there weren't really any problems with my account.
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Post by peonymad on Dec 22, 2021 8:28:43 GMT 1
That's what I usually do too Juliet, but an email from someone I had not heard from in years had me confused for a while ago, email address seemed to be correct, but asking a favour, I do not know them well enough for that!
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Post by Palustris on Dec 22, 2021 9:57:55 GMT 1
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Post by Nooj on Dec 22, 2021 15:41:02 GMT 1
Peony, I had one of those and assumed it was true, a friend in trouble.
Luckily it was explained by her to everyone in her inbox before I sent her money
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Post by Palustris on Feb 9, 2022 21:48:19 GMT 1
Getting a lot of Amazon ones at the moment. The locked account one. Grammar is appalling in it (which is deliberate by the way). Keep forwarding them to stop-spoofing@amazon.co.uk, but they do not seem to do anything about them.
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Post by penny on Feb 10, 2022 20:44:43 GMT 1
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Post by peonymad on Feb 11, 2022 10:42:23 GMT 1
Thanks Penny. I've had 2 scam emails this morning Lloyds pharmacy and McKaffery (sp) the originator email addresses too obvious to do more than report immediately!
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Post by Mommydoos on Mar 11, 2022 16:03:26 GMT 1
Had a Whatsapp message earlier, seeming to be from Jack, saying his mobile was broken & he'd changed his number, Several messages on & I got one asking for help with paying 'some invoices'. Just got suspicious so asked for last 4 numbers of his account. None of the messages sounded like Jack, so in the end I phoned his 'old' number & it was a scam. So glad I'm suspicious, but be aware....these buggers are getting clever
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Post by Palustris on Mar 11, 2022 16:13:06 GMT 1
Seems to be happening a lot. there have been lots of warnings about it on various websites. Next time ask a question which only Jack would know the answer, some thing like the name of his first pet, or girlfriend or someone's middle name. Mind if any of my children rang up asking for money, even if it was them I would tell them to go away!
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Post by Mommydoos on Mar 11, 2022 16:17:19 GMT 1
Thing is, in the recent past he has said his mobile was playing up, so that just fitted, but the more messages received just didn't sound right. My last message to that number was f.ck off 🤣
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Post by Palustris on Mar 30, 2022 15:56:41 GMT 1
Oh dear our non-existent Santander account has been compromised. And even worse our non-existent Macafee Anti-virus subscription has run out. Shame. Watch out there are thieves about!
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Post by Aspidistra on Mar 30, 2022 16:14:32 GMT 1
I read that the newsreader Emily Maitless nearly got scammed, with someone phone pretending to be from her bank's fraud section. So scammers scamming about scams.
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Post by peonymad on Mar 31, 2022 9:53:30 GMT 1
They have been doing that since they realised people were getting more aware of scams. We often get phone calls about our non-existent Amazon prime payment being due. Emails from "banks" about accounts we don't have, pretty much everything that goes in my junk folder I report as phishing don't know that it makes much difference, but worth trying.
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Post by Palustris on Mar 31, 2022 15:43:46 GMT 1
Still getting the Macafee one even though I tried to block it.
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Post by peonymad on Apr 1, 2022 9:30:42 GMT 1
Trouble is scammer pass list of emails and phone numbers amongst them selves so though it may seem like the same scam it is often from an alternate email, plus of course these folk do not stick to the same email!
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Post by Juliet on May 18, 2022 1:02:59 GMT 1
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Post by peonymad on May 18, 2022 10:14:10 GMT 1
Thanks Juliet, not aware of that one, and like you do not understand people falling for it. Though I guess that the elderly are more likely to be susceptible to falling for scammers. I know my late aunt D fell for the you have won the Australian lottery, in spite of not having bought tickets! My cousin was asked to get her a passport application, and he managed to convince her that it was not a legitimate notification.
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Post by Palustris on Jun 19, 2022 11:25:20 GMT 1
2 phishing ones this week. One from DHL about a parcel and ditto form Walmart. There are places to report these to if you Google.
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Post by Palustris on Jul 19, 2022 12:42:23 GMT 1
Phone one this time, claiming to be from BT. Would have reported it except that I cannot get the BT report page to work.
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Post by peonymad on Jul 19, 2022 17:40:06 GMT 1
That is frustrating Pal, I get frequent email scams of late purporting to be from Norton and Mccaffy or what ever it is supposed to be. I'm afraid I just report them as phishing mail.
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Post by Palustris on Aug 13, 2022 10:44:08 GMT 1
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Post by Miss Piggin on Aug 13, 2022 10:53:20 GMT 1
Useful info Pal.
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Post by peonymad on Aug 13, 2022 17:14:07 GMT 1
Thanks for the link Pal. I just found an email in my inbox rather than junk, purporting to be from Lloyds Pharmacy offering prescription deliveries. Not ssure it is a scam but suggest be aware just in case. there is no reason why Lloyds would have my email.
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Post by Juliet on Oct 7, 2022 22:40:48 GMT 1
If anyone shops with Damart, watch out for fake emails and other scams.
They were hacked a few weeks ago, and though I don't think hackers got customers' bank details (as I suspect it would have been all over the news if they had), I'm pretty sure they must have got things like name and address details as my Mum got an email today addressing her by name and asking for a review of her last Damart order - but the email didn't come either from Damart or from a known review site, so R looked up the domain name it did come from and it doesn't exist, so definitely a scam (I don't know what kind of scam as I didn't open the email, let alone any links in it!).
I rang Mum and told her to watch out for postal and phone scams from people purporting to be Damart, changed her password on Damart website, and also went into her internet bank and moved some money out of her current account into her savings account, so there is less in her current account, just in case they have her card details. Scary.
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