well miffed

Maximillion

just had a phishing email.

I know everyone gets them but for me it's a first, I have my work emails forwarded to another account and I've had one referring to my online bank saying follow this link and confirm your logon details blah blah. I've forawarded it to the bank security people.

Can I assume someone has been into my work email account, found legitimate emails from my bank in order to know who I bank with and then spammed me?

I'm assuming it's not normal spam because they had to know who I banked with. I very rarely give out my work email address. ruddy fuming about the whole thing.

:mad: :mad: I WANT SOMETHINGS FLESH! :mad: :mad:

albertross_2

There are only so many banks, send 10 million emails, and you are bound to hit the right bank. It is probably not targeted at you.

BillScarab

I've had several and sometimes it's a bank I use, sometimes it isn't. It's just pot luck that the first one you receive is your bank. If 'they' managed to hack into your PC and find out what bank you use 'they' woudl just put a key logger on there to get your account details.

Maximillion

albertross wrote:

There are only so many banks, send 10 million emails, and you are bound to hit the right bank. It is probably not targeted at you.

Do you think so? how would they get the adress? it's not like it's joebloggs@hotmail or something. I hoped it was random but seemed uncanny.

well miffed :mad:

Maximillion

BillScarab wrote:

I've had several and sometimes it's a bank I use, sometimes it isn't. It's just pot luck that the first one you receive is your bank. If 'they' managed to hack into your PC and find out what bank you use 'they' woudl just put a key logger on there to get your account details.

I didn't think it's this pc, I never log into work email from here hence the forwarded mail.

albertross_2

From:

postings on the web or newsgroups.
spyware/malware on yours or other peoples machine who you communicate with
or just by using every combination e.g.

a@hotmail.com
ab@hotmail.com
abc

etc..

All you can do is check that you have no malware, and get your friends/colleagues to.. see malware sticky thread.

TheFaqqer

Unlikely to be targeted at you - I have two Gmail accounts, and get Phishing emails into both of them. Almost got caught by a PayPal one - apart from it went to the wrong account, and I'm pretty aware of them. Gmail spotted it as phishing, so I tried it anyway to see how good the site was - Firefox spotted it as well as an attack.

I regularly get bank ones - eventually they will get someone, if you're not too aware. The PayPal one I got this week was a duplicate of the site - even down to the help pages, and had verification to check that the "credit card" number was valid or not (I entered 1234123412341234 to see if it checked it!). There was even a PayPal help page about why they need to know my card PIN!!

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

As, above it's nothing to worry about.

Your e-mail address can find it's way on to spam lists quite easy. There's not a lot you can do unless you never give it out, but then what's the point.

Just delete it and move on.

Simple rule of thumb -

Your Bank or sites like Paypal will never contact you to confirm your log in details. If you are concerned, don't click on any links within the e-mail. Go to the site manually by typing in the URL and log in that way. Once you're logged in, you should find out immediately if there's some account updating to be done.