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| JAY BOY Member Since: 04 May 2010 Location: Not here Posts: 1706  
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I have just received a very alarming email but don't know if its fake or not.
Has anyone else received an email like this and if so what have you done with it, Dear Jason I am bothering you for a very significant cause. Though we are not familiar, but I have considerable ammount of personal info concerning you. The thing is that, most likely by mistake, the information of your account has been sent to me. For instance, your address is: my address was below ---------------------------- --------------- ------------ ----------- I am a law-obedient citizen, so I decided to prevent may have been hacked. I pinned the file - Beament.dot that that was emailed to me, that you could learn what info has become obtainable for attackers. Document password is - ---------- I look forward to hearing from you, There is a word doc attached with all my info in apparently and a password with it. Ive not opened it as it could be a virus |
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28th Mar 2017 7:55pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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Yep, I've had one of those tonight, total phishing email. Just ignore it, don't open the attachment, it's not telling you that everybody doesn't know anyway. Your name and address is on the electoral roll even if like me you ticked the box to not have it open to everyone.
Just bin it and class it as an unwanted cold call 
This is "who" mine was from; From Genna Nixon gnixon@mweb.co.za I can't say I have any dealings with South Africa  Last edited by JWL on 28th Mar 2017 8:03pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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28th Mar 2017 8:01pm |
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| JAY BOY Member Since: 04 May 2010 Location: Not here Posts: 1706
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Thanks for your very quick reply and reassurance.
Nothing is safe these days
Mine was from michel.chat@videotron.ca Last edited by JAY BOY on 28th Mar 2017 8:06pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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28th Mar 2017 8:03pm |
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| lambert.the.farmer Member Since: 11 Apr 2012 Location: harrogate Posts: 2006 
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I'm hardly the best to help but I would be very very very very very suspicious of anything like that, especially if it wanted me to open a link or file.others with serious skills will be along soon. Rhubarb and custard let fly with their secret weapon.
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28th Mar 2017 8:04pm |
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| JJ Member Since: 18 May 2009 Location: Winchester Posts: 932  
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There was an article about this on the BBC recently and it is an updated more sophisticated form of Phishing that they now call spear phishing ( targeted phishing ).
Same old thing but a little more info aimed directly at you. Bin it. HR064 Hampshire and Berkshire 4x4 Response |
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28th Mar 2017 8:09pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443
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My policy with these is to check the senders address, Google it if needed. The grammar shouts out big style that this is a suspect email, plus if they really have anything important to say to you then they will try more than once so ignore the first to start with.
If they say that they're from a bank that you use then treat with great suspicion as banks will contact you by letter and have phone numbers that should be the same as the ones you can check on their main website |
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28th Mar 2017 8:23pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8578
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There are many, many different ways of being attacked/conned these days.
If in doubt do NOT open any attachments. You can try googling the senders email address or part of it. Sometimes throws up some 'interesting' results. Sometimes we get some interesting phone numbers. Google a phone number and you sometimes find it is from a genuine person/firm, sometimes you find out that it is a cold call selling PPI or a straightforward con. Have even had request for FaceTime message from Janesmith6.co.uk. Guess what I do not know a Jane Smith so why should she want to FaceTime me? Today a FaceTime request rung off after 2 rings. A quick check and apparently a scuba diving school with only a facepage site, no website. I wonder what sort of diving they actually do? If someone phones you from your bank, terminate the call, switch off your phone, wait a minute or two then phone the number on the back of your card. Phone numbers can be misleading. Have had a call from Russia, however it was a customer of ours in Queensland, Australia. So take care out there folks and play safe and check things out. Brendan |
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28th Mar 2017 9:01pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3337 
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Just received a similar email as described above with the word document attached bizarrely as I read this post. The present Mrs Rashers tells me there is a lot of these emails about.
It makes you wonder whether emails and the Internet will one day become so untrustworthy that we will all go back to using landlines and postboxes again. Banks will have to open branches up again. Now there's a thought? |
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28th Mar 2017 10:25pm |
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| Ads90 Member Since: 16 Jun 2008 Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds Posts: 800 
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I received one, worded exactly the same yesterday evening.
I googled the generic text from it and came up with nothing, which is unusual - I often find someone has pasted it into a comment board somewhere, which gives me comfort. This would have been slightly earlier than Jason's post. It would have been coincidence (suspicious?) to find the only matching result being on D2... Anyway, I deleted without opening as usual but it left me feeling uncomfortable. The 'spear' phishing is particularly nasty. |
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29th Mar 2017 9:55am |
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| ian series 1 Member Since: 17 Nov 2014 Location: south Posts: 3127 
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For the last few weeks I've started receiving around 5/6 emails a day from America telling me I'm earning between $800/$2000 a day and it's going into a holding account for me untill I verify the account.
They seem very desperate for me to do this, they sent one yesterday asking for my PayPal account details so they could transfer the money, yeh right let's just do that for you!
Apart from delete the messages I don't suppose there is much more you can do about it is there? Also how on earth do they get your details? I'm not one for giving out my email willy nilly. 80" 80" 86" 88" 90" Wanted, Forward Control Anything considered. |
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29th Mar 2017 10:17am |
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