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Just got an e-mail from 'Barclays Bank' stating someone in Fulham had tried to access my bank account 3 times today so they have suspended my account. Here's an attachment we need you to fill in with all your personal details so we can verify you are the account holder etc.

Just thought i'd stick this on here in case anyone is a little dim and gets the same and believes it. So people understand how Barclays work (i've been the victim of card fraud about 4 or 5 times now) they always ring you with an automated service querying activity on your card... they don't send you e-mails to an e-mail address you've never even given them :lol:

Dear member,
Someone with this IP address (5.152.195.199) from Fulham tried several times to access your online account.
Please do not ignore this message is for your security.

For your protection, we've suspended your account.
To reactivate download the document attached to this email to review your account activity.
If not completed until April 05, we will be forced close your account.
Note: If you receive these e-mail in your BULK/SPAM section please add to your address book notice@barclays.co.uk

Thank you,
Customer Support Service.




Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
For assistance, log in to your Barclays Bank Plc.Online Bank account and choose the "Help" link on any page.
 
bertpalmer said:
It would almost be tempting to fill it in with phoney details just for the amusement.
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Been there done that - mine was a Lloyds TSB e mail and I dont have an account with them

Fill it in send it back :lol::lol::lol: I put my name as Father Ted address- Craggy Island off County Cork

Les :lol:
 
Is it possible to forward the spam to the relevant bank, for the attention of their fraud section ? Spam ebay messages can be forwarded to spoof@ebay.com for example.
 
Just a note for filling in the forms falsely - what you are actually doing here is telling them that your email address is a valid, used one. Unless you are using it as a joke email account, I wouldn't advise doing that.
 
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When my Grandfather was alive he used to get loads of stuff from a certain Insurance company (the one who give out the free pen) and other stuff from an adult online store (all sounds weird but all the post was in different peoples names but it turned out that a neighbour had been giving out his address on surveys) but after he died I was left the job of clearing up the postal mess and contacting the companies involved (yet again) ....Then I came up with an ingenious idea...... I put the adult catalogues into the insurance companies return envelope and Vice versa......No names of course...... to this day I often titter thinking about the faces at the insurance company when they opened the return envelopes....LOL

On a Serious note, anyone who replies to these scams must be really foolish.....
 
joesmith said:
Just a note for filling in the forms falsely - what you are actually doing here is telling them that your email address is a valid, used one. Unless you are using it as a joke email account, I wouldn't advise doing that.
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^ This!
I use Mailwasher and it filters out a lot of the rubbish so they don't get to my inbox but my webmail spam folder is full of phishing emails.
I simply ignore them.
 
I'd be wary that you have to download and open a file in the case of that email ^, suggests a virus or worm of some sort.

I've probably had hundreds of phishing emails over the years but never yet had one that claimed to come from my actual bank. I'm getting a couple a week just now from from MANAGER HENRY BWONGA or his co workers insisting that my fedex package is ready for collection from Texas somewhere.
 
A few years back I received a phone call at work from a mr I Biggun asking for my address to send me "some important documentation"

As you'd imagine I was pretty rude to him , as i recall i said something along the lines of " I suppose your name is Ivor - **** off and stop wasting my time "

I was quite embarrased when I later had a call I got from someone in my companies HR dept saying that Mr Biggun had complained that I'd made inappropriate comments about his name , and used insulting and profane language to him :bonk:

Think the scene from 'hot fuzz 'where Mr P I Staker rings up to report the missing swan :lol:
 
Untold thousands of this type of email are sent out every day, perhaps millions.

Why? Because they have a success rate. You'd think that people can't be that stupid, but some are. Same with the 419 scams. I used to get letters from benefactors in Nigeria before we had fax machines. Then fax machines replaced the expensive stamps. Then emails replaced the expensive fax machine call charges. The fact that these scammers used to spend money - and some still do - on sending their crap through the mail pretty well proves that it works.
 
The latest 'craze' in my inbox seems to be paypal dire warnings, that my account has been compromised, blah blah blah... needless to say, when I log into my account, by actually typing the legitimate url into my browser and not clicking on links in the email, all is well with the world. However, I AM naturally suspicious. so never click on email links, but these paypal ones are much more 'believable' than the bank ones, so worth being warned about.
 
phil8139 said:
190,000?

Per day!?

Really?

can I have a job answering them?
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yup really.. considering we have about 200 mailboxes its a fair amount.

those are deleted straight off the bat, i dont think that number includes medium score spam that is quarantined either. but it definitely wont include rejected connections from bad reputation mail servers.
 
I had one for my email account which is very UK based. It came from some strange address in California which I assume had been hijacked by somebody else. If I'd replied who knows what excitement I could have let myself in for. They can be very convincing though if you don't pay that bit extra attention.
 
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I have a number of email boxes which arent a name - like Dumpdon Castle @

And i quite regularly get email entitled stuff like "Mr Castle Your Account.... " - in all probability its automated - or written by an illiterate moron
 
big soft moose said:
I have a number of email boxes which arent a name - like Dumpdon Castle @

And i quite regularly get email entitled stuff like "Mr Castle Your Account.... " - in all probability its automated - or written by an illiterate moron
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most likely banks of servers in china (etc) with bots farming information and mass mailing the information gathered.
 
had one today telling me that my paypaI (note the capital I looks a bit like a small L) account had been compromised.. just fill out the form.........

As for the 419 scams check out 419eater.com
 
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