Sorry for posting here, Admins, but I thought this might apply to quite a few members here.
I received an Email, apparently from BT, this morning. It informed me of forthcoming increases on my BT account and that if I did not go into my account, link given, to see and accept these changes, my account would be temporarily suspended. It also warned me that, before viewing and accepting them, I would have to supply up to date personal details I opened my account on my usual link and it was quite normal with no references to that email, which looked quite genuine. I phoned BT about this and was told it was a scam and to forward it to the ‘phishing dept’. Just a warning to folk to be aware of this.
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18-05-2018 07:48 AM #1
BT SCAM warning
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18-05-2018 07:59 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-05-2018 11:24 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Scammers should be hung, drawn & quartered, until we find a less humane way of disposing them.
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18-05-2018 08:03 AM #4
There are loads of them out there. Just expand the senders details and you can usually see the spoof email address its been sent from.
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18-05-2018 09:17 AM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thanks in advance.
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18-05-2018 09:22 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-05-2018 09:35 AM #8
A lot of these emails especially PayPal ones are often terrible and quite clearly a scam, unfortunately these days there is a rise in more elaborate scams and more genuine looking emails.
I suppose in BT terms and conditions it will say they can increase charges whenever they want without needing you to agree so maybe you can identify a scam BT email that way!
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18-05-2018 09:40 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-05-2018 10:13 AM #10
- Join Date
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- Sydney, Australia
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Must be a world wide thing....NSW police in Oz have posted warning about similar email scam in regard to Telstra accounts.
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18-05-2018 09:39 AM #11
I think scammers are trying to take advantage of the deluge of GDPR emails on the go at the moment.
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18-05-2018 11:01 AM #12
I read somewhere that the spelling/grammar mistakes are often deliberate, they don't want to get replies from everyone - most folk will eventually realise it's a scam and that's just a waste of the scammers time.
They want to get folk who don't notice how badly made the original email is.
Thode are the people that are likely to be daft - or just careless - enough to eventually hand over money.
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18-05-2018 11:06 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thode are
Woops - just replied...
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