Warning about phishing attempts

prowla

Hi, folks.

Just a note to people who've got new computers for Christmas, to beware of "phishing" emails.

I've had some new ones today, supposedly from ebay and Paypal, warning me that my accounts need to be verified and giving me a link to click on to do the necessary; of course the links go to an illegal fake site rather than the real one, so that they can grab your username and password.

The rule to remember is: NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN AN EMAIL to login to a site.

Happy surfing!

rockin_plumber

Also a good way to tell these are dodgy emails is they address you "DEAR CUSTOMER" and not by your actual name...


Funnily enough I had one from Amazon this morning to an email address that wasn't even linked to my Amazon account.... Who are they trying to kid!!

Oblivion

I've had an unexpected email from Amazon this morning too offering me a free Kindle ebook on the back of some previous ebook purchases I made. It certainly looks very genuine. It has a voucher code to copy and then a link to follow which does start with http://amazon.co.uk followed by an incredibly long string of characters.


I don't know whether to trust it or not.

mwddrwg

I got an email from Amazon too offering me a free Kindle book with a voucher code. Was totally genuine and I got my book but there's only a choice of 6 though

bod1467

Oh I've had loads of these recently ... Amazon, Ebay, Apple, Paypal etc. All telling me my account is locked/about to be locked unless I click on that link.

J_B

I had one from NatWest on Xmas day - I always click on the link and fill the forms in (with spurious info, for the worriers on here )

A quick look on NatWest.com suggests I should forward the message to phising at natwest dot com
I did that, but they rejected my message:-
Your access to this mail system has been rejected due to the sending MTA's poor reputation

:mad:

kerleytops

Forward them to spoof@paypal.com and maybe help to stop them.

Collabora

also another way to tell.

without clicking on links, just scroll your cursor over the link and look in bottom left of screen and it will show you the URL of that link and 9/10 it will not be a PP/ebay/amazon URL