bank fraud email trojan

tyllwyd

I change my email address slightly when I sign up for different websites so when I get spam I can see where it originally came from, and it quite soon becomes obvious that any email address you use to register with online retailers might end up on a spammer's list.

My OH isn't fond of anti-virus programmes because they are too slow. He uses 'Sandboxie' so that the browser runs in its own virtual 'box'. If you want extra protection, it might be worth having a look at it.

hubb

I have installed Sandboxie but not sure if it working along with my Chrome. I have saved pages in chrome for all my sites but you have to manually open them through sandboxie every time to get it to run which is a bit of a pain. If only sandboxie ran automaticly whatever chrome link you open.

londonTiger

i only register an email for all my banking stuff that's private and not used anywhere for anything else. All other emails hasve filters set up to delte any emails that contain any of the bank, hmrc et al in the sender, subject or body to be deleted on sight.

banks rarely email you at all, they do not want users to get in the habit of receiving important banking info via email in case users develop a habit of receiving legit bank emails and fall for a scam. So you can safely just set all bank emails to auto delete.

Knarf44

hubb wrote: »

I have installed Sandboxie but not sure if it working along with my Chrome. I have saved pages in chrome for all my sites but you have to manually open them through sandboxie every time to get it to run which is a bit of a pain. If only sandboxie ran automaticly whatever chrome link you open.

If I recall correctly, you simply right click on the Chrome or IE icon and choose "run in sandbox" or words similar.

tronator

earthstorm wrote: »

I get a load of these pertaining to be from Barclays, but i dont bank with barclays, i reported these to their security department, but all this did was seem to increase the amount i got, so i cc the next few reports to Barclays CEO explaining that if they dont take phishing serious then i will pass this onto the FSA and strange since then i have not had another barclays phishing email

LOL, what does Barclays have to do with these fishing emails?

Imagine someone sends Junk mail to thousands of households and put your address as sender on the back. What could you do if all these people complain to you?

Mr_Toad

earthstorm wrote: »

I get a load of these pertaining to be from Barclays, but i dont bank with barclays, i reported these to their security department, but all this did was seem to increase the amount i got, so i cc the next few reports to Barclays CEO explaining that if they dont take phishing serious then i will pass this onto the FSA and strange since then i have not had another barclays phishing email

Good grief!

These emails are nothing to do with Barclays!

People's stupidity in responding is also nothing to do with Barclays. Every bank that I know publishes warnings to their customers telling them that they never send emails asking for personal info.

If you must report it someone try the organisation who's job it is to catch fraudsters, criminals and thieves - the Police.

Just seen the post above. How true!

earthstorm

tronator wrote: »

LOL, what does Barclays have to do with these fishing emails?

Imagine someone sends Junk mail to thousands of households and put your address as sender on the back. What could you do if all these people complain to you?

well if you actually read i was just explaining i get a lot of these phishing emails pertaining to be from Barclays, i also get a few pertaining to be from other banks.

tronator

earthstorm wrote: »

well if you actually read i was just explaining i get a lot of these phishing emails pertaining to be from Barclays, i also get a few pertaining to be from other banks.

Yes, read it. But still, what does Barclays (or any other bank) have to do with these emails? Nothing.

These emails come from fraudsters, and the banks have nothing to do with it.

You should keep giving advice in the other forums, where you have more knowledge about the topic ;-)

John_Gray

waddler_8 wrote: »

These threats arrive as a zip file where you have to unzip and run the executable.

Occasionally it's not even as simple as that, since the file may be named
SomeFileOrOther.ZIP.EXE
which will look as if it was just
SomeFileOrOther.ZIP
to those who aren't displaying file extensions.
Since you double-click on both ZIP files and on EXE files to open / run them, unhappiness could occur...

earthstorm

tronator wrote: »

Yes, read it. But still, what does Barclays (or any other bank) have to do with these emails? Nothing.

These emails come from fraudsters, and the banks have nothing to do with it.

You should keep giving advice in the other forums, where you have more knowledge about the topic ;-)

do you think the bank ones also come from the banks as i stated PERTAINING. in other words they make you think they are from the bank the same as what the OP has received pertaining to be from the Halifax with a trojan within an attachment. all banks have an email where you can forward Phishing emails too.