Very Convincing Scam "BT" Email

DaffyDill_2

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but just received a very convincing scam email.

It's apparently from BT headed "Your Account" saying they have introduced new authentication procedures and would I click on the "UPDATE NOW" link and confirm my billing information. This leads to a non-BT 'twowordstory.org' URL.

2010

Get these emails all the time from all the banks, HMRC, Paypal,Ebay,Amazon, the list goes on and on.
Never, ever follow the links from ANY email.

DaffyDill_2

Yes, we all get loads of them and they're usually obviously scams.

But this one is quite convincing and some of the links in the email even point to the BT website. I wanted to alert people in case they click without studying the email too carefully.

2010

This is an email I received about 5 minutes ago:
Dear Customer,

Tesco is giving you a chance to shop for free at any of our tesco outlets or online by giving out free tesco vouchers.

This offer is only for Tesco Savings Bank users and it will be on until the 31st of January, 2015.

To Qualify, follow the link below and input all the details required

Click here to Register

The Tesco Personal Finance Team

When you click through in the address line you get.
http://www.chemnitj.org/t5/authUID.html?ssl=yes

and of course the site looks like the genuine Tesco Bank.

Jemma-T

twowordstory.org convincing? Hope you never actually went there and simply noticed the true URL when you hovered over it.

There are some great fake emails but they all have something wrong with them and that's always a grasp of the English language and its simple grammar rules.

Collabora

2010 wrote: »

This is an email I received about 5 minutes ago:
Dear Customer,

Tesco is giving you a chance to shop for free at any of our tesco outlets or online by giving out free tesco vouchers.

This offer is only for Tesco Savings Bank users and it will be on until the 31st of January, 2015.

To Qualify, follow the link below and input all the details required

[URL=""]Click here to Register[/URL]

The Tesco Personal Finance Team

When you click through in the address line you get.
[url][/url]

and of course the site looks like the genuine Tesco Bank.

I suggest you remove the links

2010

Collabora wrote: »

I suggest you remove the links

I don`t see why.
The whole point of the thread is to warn about how realistic and just how "very convincing scam email" is.

So an example of a scam site is given.

brewerdave

I've received the "Tesco" email on all three of my email addys over the last month or two - so it must be pretty widespread !

kuohu

2010 wrote: »

Get these emails all the time from all the banks, HMRC, Paypal,Ebay,Amazon, the list goes on and on.
Never, ever follow the links from ANY email.

You say never ever follow the links in any email and then post a spam/scam email with the links included.

Lurker21

I had the "BT" scam email too. When you click on the link (which I did only for research!) it takes you to a page that looks a bit like a BT page and if you did not notice the duff URL you could be caught out. The OP is right that this is better than most scams as the English is spot on.

Never click on a link in an email - good advice.

tykesi

2010 wrote: »

I don`t see why.
The whole point of the thread is to warn about how realistic and just how "very convincing scam email" is.

So an example of a scam site is given.

Anybody who thinks that is 'realistic' deserves to be scammed!