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***WARNING***Website posing as BT try to phish your account details

judygarland
judygarland Posts: 399 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
in Praise, vent & warnings
I have received an email today which i'm almost sure is a phishing email. If you get and email that starts "Urgent - BT is making some changes to its email service. Emails you send from alternate BT Yahoo! Mail addresses may be blocked" press delete.

I have reported it to BT. It is very convincing. It waffles on about error 553 and I have managed to find this on the BT website and it talks about Outlook 2003 and how there are sometimes conflicts and this error message comes up.

I spent an hour on the phone trying to find out who at BT may be interested in the fact that 1000's of email addresses and passwords could be stolen and its like bashing your head against a brick wall.

Does any one know who deals with this sort of thing at BT. The Indian call centre hadn't got a clue.

Comments

  • buffevent
    buffevent Posts: 1 Newbie
    Hi Judygarland
    did you get anywhere with this - i am one sucker who fell for it and it is playing havoc with my inbox!
    Have you any ideas?
  • judygarland
    judygarland Posts: 399 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    buffevent wrote: »
    Hi Judygarland
    did you get anywhere with this - i am one sucker who fell for it and it is playing havoc with my inbox!
    Have you any ideas?

    Nope. Had an auto response email. Complete waste of time. No reply from anyone from BT.
  • sillyvixen
    sillyvixen Posts: 3,642 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    i had a phishing email today ... claimed to be from my bank ... i opened it and it claimed to be verifing my details from a different bank i have no contact with!!! really bad planning by phishers!! idiots
    Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness. There is no more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "i am really clever!"
  • Freddie_Snowbits
    Freddie_Snowbits Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    Please, if OP is on BTInternet or Yahoo, just switch on you email filter and these spams will be directed to your Spam Folder automatically. Make sure you have the latest Anti virus software as well, see you account homepage for details.
  • judygarland
    judygarland Posts: 399 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »
    Please, if OP is on BTInternet or Yahoo, just switch on you email filter and these spams will be directed to your Spam Folder automatically. Make sure you have the latest Anti virus software as well, see you account homepage for details.

    I have my switched on and it still came through? It is a very convincing email.
  • Freddie_Snowbits
    Freddie_Snowbits Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    judygarland wrote: »
    I have my switched on and it still came through? It is a very convincing email.
    Do you read mail on line or use MS Outlook?
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