Warning!!!
You are certainly not the only one! I get these phishing scams a dozen times a day from the traiditonal Nigerian money scams to these things from PayPal telling me I had an order - which I didn't so it makes you WANT to check it out thinking someone hacked your account but it's a hack itself!
Wed, 10/06/2009 - 21:35
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I have noticed a great increase in the general hacking emails. Most are easily recognised and dealt with, but where there is doubt, I then contact the merchant/bank etc directly to querie the activity.
Tue, 07/07/2009 - 15:37
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I find that the types of hacking mails are fairly cyclical, banks for a few weeks then something else and so on until they all come round again.
Here's a solution - assuming that you have multiple mailboxes with your provider, as most people tend to these days and which most spam relies on if you check out the wierd e-mail names that they're using to get through to you.
1. Don't use an online mailbox system as they generally aren't flexible enough
2. Rather than rely upon your e-mail programme to sort out the good stuff from the bad use a variation of your standard e-mail name by adding something at the end. So rather than being johnsmith@isp.co.uk have johnsmitha, johnsmithb or some similar end of name theming.
3. Then have folders within your e-mail programme for subjects that you receive e-mail on such as shopping, ebay or whatever and use e-mail filters to direct appropriately addressed e-mails into the correct folder.
4. Everything else will go to the default folder that you specify and will mostly be the spam and therefore easy to delete.
I average between 200 and 300 spam e-mails a day and the above system deals with them easily for me.
The other thing to remember is that your basic e-mail address is not as secure as you would wish it to be and the longer you are with an ISP the more widely known it will be and the more spam you will get.
So another alternative is to regularly change ISP's, but that's just too painful - almost as bad as moving house :)
Thu, 09/07/2009 - 15:32
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BEWARE Haden Engineering Mitchell ACT who employ a thief and ex prison jailbird Lloyd Stephen Ganzerla, and his thief & drug addict wife Belinda Jane Ganzerla (nee Keuning).
This criminal swindler home invader thief employed by Haden Engineering Mitchell ACT, was locked up in jail in Her Majestys Prison Stuart Creek near Townsville North Queensland for stealing money from the Government. This thief working for Haden Engineering in Mitchell ACT robbed my wife & I of hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Would you let these criminals into your home or property ?
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Tue, 05/01/2010 - 21:56
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I've been getting looooads of these emails recently from HSBC, Abbey, Egg, Cahoot, Barclays etc. I don't bank with any of them and my bank don't email me starting the message off with "Hello/Dear Customer" so I know they're all fakes. I've yet to receive one that even looks remotely genuine as the vast majority are very badly spelt.
I now have most of these banks email addresses to forward phishing emails to them for them to deal with!
Wed, 06/01/2010 - 15:45
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i must get around 10 scam emails each day. these range from so-called banks to wiining 3 billion. no bank or any organization will ever ask for online details.
Tue, 09/02/2010 - 16:19
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I nearly was had once as I was dealing with a bank and a random scam email came through that had similar content to my communication with the bank. Quite scary and I can see why the elderly might be taken in by these
I don't even look at theses emails anymore. As jonhope says none of these businesses will ask you for your details.
Sun, 14/02/2010 - 00:10
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I've been getting lots of phishing scams in my hotmail account recently. I bank with HSBC - so why I've been getting Lloyds, NatWest, RBS "confirm your details" type emails I know to ignore them.
This afternoon I got one from hsbc's 'service' account with the following message:
Dear HSBC Customer, 2008 Security
HSBC Bank Plc is hereby announcing the New Security Upgrade. We've upgraded our new SSL servers to serve our customers for a better and secure banking service,against any fraudulent activities.
Due to this recent upgrade, you are requested to update your account information by clicking the link below.
https://Securityalert.HSBC.co.uk/1/2/
HSBC Bank Plc
Security Advisor
HSBC Bank PLC.
Click the link - and it often looks like a legit site. But it's not...HSBC specifically say on their website they will never contact you about your account via email. If you click the link above it says 'This is a reported phishing website'.
Anyone else noticing more 'phishing' email activity recently?