FCA

nasim19

I have received an email from someone called Kim Smith, her email is

(Removed by Forum Team) @gmail.com.

and she is claiming she is from FCA and wants me contact her regarding my creditors? 

Is this a scam as I can’t find any information about her?!

piker57

nasim19 said:

I have received an email from someone called Kim Smith, her email is

(Removed by Forum Team) @gmail.com.

and she is claiming she is from FCA and wants me contact her regarding my creditors? 

Is this a scam as I can’t find any information about her?!

Of course it's a scam phishing email. Instead of trying to find a supposed FCA employee, a very quick search would take you here https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/fake-fca-communications

GrumpyDil

That is a Gmail email address. Enough said

NewUser1972

nasim19 said:

I have received an email from someone called Kim Smith, her email is

(Removed by Forum Team) @gmail.com.

and she is claiming she is from FCA and wants me contact her regarding my creditors? 

Is this a scam as I can’t find any information about her?!

Wow. But at least you checked. Good on you.

CliveOfIndia

GrumpyDil said:

That is a Gmail email address. Enough said

^^^^ This.

No genuine company would use a gmail account (or Hotmail, or Outlook or whatever).  If ever you get an email purporting to be from a large company and the sender's address is one of the free email hosts that you or I would use, bin it immediately.

It may be different if you're receiving an estimate from your local one-man-band gardener or window-cleaner or whatever - though even then, many of them will have a custom email address.

nasim19

Hahaha is it bad that I am going to play her? 😁😁 
i am going to be pretend that I am a police officer 😜


thanks everyone for the reply ☺️

NewUser1972

nasim19 said:

Hahaha is it bad that I am going to play her? 😁😁 
i am going to be pretend that I am a police officer 😜


thanks everyone for the reply ☺️

If you do that you will end up on a list of 'confirmed' email addresses - i.e. emails addresses that definitely have a person who is reading them.  You will get bombarded with spam. I would just leave it if I were you

nasim19

NewUser1972 said:

nasim19 said:

Hahaha is it bad that I am going to play her? 😁😁 
i am going to be pretend that I am a police officer 😜


thanks everyone for the reply ☺️

If you do that you will end up on a list of 'confirmed' email addresses - i.e. emails addresses that definitely have a person who is reading them.  You will get bombarded with spam. I would just leave it if I were you

Aaaa now that makes sense. I will do that. Thanks 😊 

piker57

nasim19 said:

NewUser1972 said:

nasim19 said:

Hahaha is it bad that I am going to play her? 😁😁 
i am going to be pretend that I am a police officer 😜


thanks everyone for the reply ☺️

If you do that you will end up on a list of 'confirmed' email addresses - i.e. emails addresses that definitely have a person who is reading them.  You will get bombarded with spam. I would just leave it if I were you

Aaaa now that makes sense. I will do that. Thanks 😊 

Better still forward it to the phishing reporting email at the FCA in the link in my above post