MSE News: Beware loan email from 'Martin Lewis'

Former_MSE_Guy

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Emails purporting to be sent by Martin Lewis saying you've been 'pre-approved' for a loan are doing the rounds and should be deleted ..."

Read the full story:
Beware loan email from 'Martin Lewis'

capehorn

Not to defend these guys but there is more than one person in the world called Martin Lewis, and I don't see any reference to MSE in that email either.

anewman

The moral of the story - never buy or use any services mentioned in a spam e-mail (any unsolicited advertisements from people you do not know). (If you use the services, you only encourage spammers - and you make my inbox get full of junk and make me very angry :mad: - you won't like me when I'm angry ).

Has anyone had the MoneyExpert Limited e-mails? This is another deliberate misuse of the MoneySavingExpert name IMO. See below... (They are sent to e-mail addresses sold on by pigsback.com).

oakhouse13

How do they acquire the email addresses in the first place?

anewman

oakhouse13 wrote: »

How do they acquire the email addresses in the first place?

E-mail addresses are considered a commodity and are commonly sold in large databases. If you have ticked or unticked as appropriate boxes on sites you sign up to to request not to have your e-mail passed on etc, then this has been done illegally, but it is quite common and a sad fact of life.

One way to tell which company leaked your email address is to buy your own domain name and set-up catch all e-mail. This increases your risk of receiving spam, as now anything sent to [EMAIL="anyname@yourdomain.com"]anyname@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL] will now be received. The idea is when you sign up to sites then you can put your email as, for example, [EMAIL="moneysavingexpert.com@yourdomain.com"]moneysavingexpert.com@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL] Now if you get spam e-mail sent to that address you know moneysavingexpert.com has either sold your e-mail address on, or has had data stolen (not saying MSE would do this, just an example, I know MSE is very trustworthy which is sadly why the scamsters abuse the name).

Also note that if your e-mail address is posted on a website, web bots harvest the internet searching web pages for them adding them to databases. The above e-mail addresses, although not genuine, will likely be added and spammed because of the automated manner in which the spammers work.

Eric_Pisch

repost ......

Stryder

I always thought this website was too good to be true!

If you can not trust Martin, who can you trust! :money:

Wutang_2

I actually applied because it had Martin Lewis on - but via Quidco. I have paid a fee upfront - do I get 8% of this fee back and a loan? Or is this misselling?

How do I reclaim my pre-approved unenforcable cashback spam mis-sale?

Stryder

crikey.


I have no other words. ask Martin the Loan Shark

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ILW

Wutang wrote: »

I actually applied because it had Martin Lewis on - but via Quidco. I have paid a fee upfront - do I get 8% of this fee back and a loan? Or is this misselling?

How do I reclaim my pre-approved unenforcable cashback spam mis-sale?

you are joking, aren't you?

Wutang_2

ILW wrote: »

you are joking, aren't you?

Nope - deadly serious. So deadly.

Martin-Lewis-deadly brother.