Phishing Mails ... ?
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Kinky

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39,939 posts

298 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Either Barclays Bank employees need some lessons in English, or these are phishing mails .....

2 emails just received ...... minutes apart ....

Subject (1): Bar‮syalc‬ e-mail ve& #114;ificati
Subject (2): B‮syalcra‬ email verif icati

D‮rae‬ Ba‮yalcr‬s Me‮bm‬er,
T‮ih‬s em‮lia‬ was s‮ne‬t by the Ba‮cr‬lays ser‮ev‬r to v‮yfire‬ yo‮ru‬ email a‮sserdd‬. You must co‮pm‬lete th‮si‬ pr‮seco‬s by cli‮kc‬ing
on the l‮ni‬k be‮ol‬w and enter‮gni‬ in the s‮am‬ll win‮od‬w yo‮ru‬ Bar‮syalc‬ Membership number, passcode and memorable word.
Th‮si‬ is do‮en‬ for y‮uo‬r pro‮oitcet‬n - b‮uace‬se s‮emo‬ of our m‮ebme‬rs no l‮gno‬er h‮va‬e ac‮ec‬ss to t‮eh‬ir em‮ia‬l addresses and we
must v‮yfire‬ it. To ver‮fi‬y y‮ruo‬ em‮lia‬ address and access yo‮ru‬ b‮na‬k acc‮uo‬nt, cl ...‮kci‬ on .....

Perhaps I'll send them a dictionary as an xmas pressie.

Shame I don't even bank with them either!

K

>>> Edited by Kinky on Friday 25th March 15:13

jmorgan

36,010 posts

313 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Just had 4. Bin them. I forwarded them on to barclays security.

agent006

12,058 posts

293 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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USe a separate email address for important stuff like banking. Don't give the address to anyone else. Then you can be fairly confident that you'll not get phished on it.

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

269 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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I can never understand why they are spelt like that, is it to get through spam filters or are the scammers really just that stupid ?

MilnerR

8,273 posts

287 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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I've had a few of these recently but they've all be grammatically correct. Just delete them, they're just trying to get a list of active Email addresses. I'd love to find the shitwits that send these and set about them with a pick axe handle

h2dca

901 posts

269 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Just been having fun with some scammers trying to give me twice the money I am asking for my Jeep, I think I upset one of them though


Your father is a thief,who the hell are you?go ahead and tell the gods and i give you 7 days,if you don't call me basterd as you can see i have you f**king pictures with me and i am going to use voodoo for you as my power.

idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Of course could not resist replying, commended him on his talents for not only being a thief but a comedian with his voodoo statement then went on to say that I work for my money and have a nice house, cars, wife, skiing, laying on the beach holidays etc and for him to look around and ask himself who is the idiot.

Helped Friady at work to pass nicely


agent006

12,058 posts

293 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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thebluemonkey said:
I can never understand why they are spelt like that, is it to get through spam filters


philthy

4,697 posts

269 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Anyone else ever set up mail rules to forward spam/phishing emails to the addresses they give you?

Mustn't take long to get fed up with a full inbox all the time.

Phil

agent006

12,058 posts

293 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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philthy said:
Anyone else ever set up mail rules to forward spam/phishing emails to the addresses they give you?


If you do anything other than delete a spam mail it just proves to tehm that your address exists, so they send you even more.

simpo two

92,670 posts

294 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Kinky said:
Th‮si‬ is do‮en‬ for y‮uo‬r pro‮oitcet‬n - b‮uace‬se s‮emo‬ of our m‮ebme‬rs no l‮gno‬er h‮va‬e ac‮ec‬ss to t‮eh‬ir em‮ia‬l addresses

So how will they receive the mail then?
Mailwasher for me - delete at the server.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Had two from Halifax, one from Lloyds and one from a bank I've never heard of last week.

How's about sending back details of Saddam Hussein, Johnny Piescott, the LivingStone, etc....?