Warning!!! Re: Screwfix Free Stanley Toolkit offer (Scam email)

forgotmyname

My email looked quite well designed, no typo's or masked words that I remember.  Maybe they have been reported
so many times the messages are now getting picked up and rejected a lot more?

Agree that if your actually reading the page then the membership page/subscription is there at the bottom but
it doesn't take much to hide that away.

PHK

BoGoF said:

If people are falling for scams as blatant as this "yourReward is Wa iiiting" (that's exactly how it's worded/spelt in the heading) then maybe the Internet is not for them?

They do this intentionally to get the sort of people who won't notice the money going out and/or won't carefully read what they are doing. 

forgotmyname

Not sure if its a new group doing the scam because the emails are now in a strange font and really
poorly worded with many spelling mistakes and/or typo's.

Devon_Scrooge

I've been getting loads of these for about 8 months to two of my domain email addresses register with comapnies that were hacked - one at LinkedIn (hacked big style twice) and one at SVP.co.uk, whose internet security is near non-existant.

Initially the emails were all coming from Ional.co.uk, but lately from Kashflow.com

I very carefully tried the unsubscribe button for Ional for the SVP address, and that seems to work - time will tell.
Tried the unsubscribe button for Kashflow for the same address, and it takes you to the survey page, and not 'unsubscribe'.
HND in computing here so not likely to get caught out by a scam or click on anything I shouldn't.
All of these emails (about 90) have been reported to report@phishing.gov.uk Government (Action Fraud) but they have done absolutely nothing.  Ional.co.uk are a pain in the !!!!!!, but Kashflow.com look more dangerous.

FrancisOfAssisi

Devon_Scrooge said:

...
I very carefully tried the unsubscribe button for Ional ...
...

Never click on links in suspicious emails or Web pages.

Never.

Never.

Never.

Even if it says "unsubscribe" or some such nonsense.

You cannot possibly have any idea what it's going to do.

Don't do it.

Olinda99

Stephen333 said:

I've been getting these every day for the past couple of months. Tried blocking them, but they come from a different email address every time! 

what email are you using because there's probably no point blocking them as such but you should put a rule in - something like if contains screwfix then delete or whatever