Scam emails

yep, they are getting more and more advanced

 

I had one earlier this year supposedly from HMRC sayinv that I had a tax refund, wgen I clicked the link it looked very like the genuine site.

I have had two others one from Skype saying they received a payment of £39? and anothet from payPAL.

 

I had another account suspended today apparently....from Lloyd.co.uk

Lloyd ?

I've had them all - from Barclays, HSBC, Nationwide etc. Never banked with any of 'em!

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

Yeah I had one from Coutts,how do they know where I bank.

 

Courtesy, for Mr Plumberboy, Sir.

 

I don't think your taking me seriously Phil.

 

If you have an email account you will have had numerous scam attempts. Just send them some bogus details give them something to do, if a few Million do this it will keep them occupied

 

I've done a bit of scambaiting. Dead easy, you set up a gmail account and use this (to reply to an obvious scam email in your regular account. (just copy the email address and the text, so it looks like they sent it direct to your baiting account) Never give your home address out (make a fake one up (but check it isn't a real address either)

 

Good idea, trouble is if you don't set up another account as JJ suggests, then by clicking on some things you open up ways for the scammers to get into your accounts.
With postal junk mail I send back the papers if there's a prepaid envelope there.

 

They're getting more adventurous, I've had them, supposedly from:
BT
BT Yahoo
Amazon
Parcel force
eBay
PayPal
All the major banks, and some not so major

And some more that I can't remember, the scammers are also picking up on topics that make the email seem more genuine as well, Such as BT Yahoo mail being moved to BT shortly etc.

 

Wouldn't expect anything less for a plumber!

 

Honestly I have seen some that really made me question whether I was dealing with a proper email or a fake one. I cannot believe how good some of these scams have become. Then again, some of the ones that I get in my email are so laughably bad that it defies logic.