Funny Lloyds Bank e-mail

Jake'sGran

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I get loads of these in my hotmail account. Natwest, canadian banks, ebay (when i dont even use my hotmail) etc.

This used to happen to me and on this laptop I don't have a Hotmail account but I do have a Yahoo account and that too seems to attract a lot of Spam. I seemed to remember someone saying that Google mail is the best but I have not got around to having my AOL account directed there.

spud17

Oh I'm sure it won't be very much, bet you can't wait to get a lovely new Beamer or Merc?

Last week I was informed that I'd won the 'Toyota China' ? lottery, 2 days before it they said it was to be drawn.

achtunglady

Millionaire wrote: »

Just had the same thing, I have not got one either. I did enter a username and password though....

Username:F..kOff
Password: YouT..ats

Fingers crossed my imaginary account is safe:rolleyes:

I used to do this till i was told not to incase whatever link you have clicked on installs a keylogger.

Leopard

I wrote a filter (in Mac Mail) that directs any incoming email which commences with the words "Dear Valued Customer" straight to the Trash, unopened.

aliEnRIK

Leopard wrote: »

I wrote a filter (in Mac Mail) that directs any incoming email which commences with the words "Dear Valued Customer" straight to the Trash, unopened.

Good call Leopard

I might see if I can try that in gmail

Leopard

Another filter that I find extremely effective is "Send to Junk" (not the more lethal "Trash") if "Sender is not in my Previous Recipients". That one diverts huge amounts of spam.

I also think it's wise to have a filter that sends automatically to "Trash" those spooky emails that display no Sender, no Subject and appear to contain nothing.

Over the years, I've built up a substantial list of filters that all incoming emails have to negotiate, successively and successfully, if they're to get their way into my Inbox. It's a complex thing to set up because if you get just one filter wrong, or in the wrong place in the batting order, everything will then start going to the wrong place. But it's a worthwhile thing to do and virtually no spam whatsoever reaches my Inbox.

robredz

Miss-spent wrote: »

In addition to these fake bank e-mails I keep getting (in my spam folder) loads of e-mails asking me to open up an attachment to view my latest statement details. Theses are obviously fake although not from banks. I would love to know though what would happen if I opened the attachment, any ideas?

There may be a hidden payload that will execute using an ActiveX exploit to install a key logger, a trojan or some other malware to elicit passwords and account details of anything stored on your PC. Best to not open any such attachments. If you do, it's the Malwarebytes, HiJackthis treatment PDQ

Leopard

But, in contrast, nothing untoward whatsoever is likely to happen if Miss-spent is using a Mac.


And what, pray, in the posting:

Miss-spent wrote: »

In addition to these fake bank e-mails I keep getting (in my spam folder) loads of e-mails asking me to open up an attachment to view my latest statement details. Theses are obviously fake although not from banks. I would love to know though what would happen if I opened the attachment, any ideas?

leads you simply to assume that Miss-Spent is unwise enough to be using a PC and Windows?

robredz wrote: »

There may be a hidden payload that will execute using an ActiveX exploit to install a key logger, a trojan or some other malware to elicit passwords and account details of anything stored on your PC. Best to not open any such attachments. If you do, it's the Malwarebytes, HiJackthis treatment PDQ

aliEnRIK

Ive decided NOT to filter 'dear valued customer' as it removes my maplins emails

robredz

Leopard wrote: »

But, in contrast, nothing untoward whatsoever is likely to happen if Miss-spent is using a Mac.


And what, pray, in the posting:



leads you simply to assume that Miss-Spent is unwise enough to be using a PC and Windows?

Nothing, but others who are would not be as lucky as a Mac or a Linux/Unix user, in similar circumstances.

And what leads you to assume I am using Windows?