fradulent emails-pls help

mummyyummy_2

in the past 2.5 weeks I have received countless emails from 5 diff banks (apparantely) asking me to sign in with my details or my accounts will be frozen. Now number 1. I am not with any of those banks and number 2. they are all exactly the same but diff banks but words pics etc are the same. Obviously I have not responded, all I do is click on the "report phishing scam" button and it takes the email away. I am unsure wot to do now as i am getting about 5 a day. If I have posted this in the wrong forum then could a mod pls move as I really dont know wot to do. I fogot to add they are all going into my junk, so thats 1 good thing but i just wondered who had got hold of my details in the first place, specially with all the lost data discs etc happening right now.

Browntoa

the software that spams these phishing emails just generates the email addresses randomly

you are not on any list

mummyyummy_2

well thats good to know, but what should i be doing about them?

RayWolfe

We are all on a list. Don't worry about it.
However if the junk emails become too much of a problem (I got 400 or so a day over Christmas), you have to change your email name with your ISP. A pain but that is life these days. 85% of emails are spam. It's a real problem.
For you, don't open them. Don't reply to them. Don't go to the sites they ask you to.

KTF

You can either delete them or report them to the appropriate bank.

Mikeyorks

mummyyummy wrote: »

specially with all the lost data discs etc happening right now.

None of the (Govt) mislaid discs contain Email addresses.

Otherwise above data applies - just delete them or research the appropriate abuse address for the Bank alleged to have sent them ... and send them on.

There's an APACS sponsored site here that acts as a centralised log for phishing Emails. Saves looking up the varied addresses the Banks use. In the light of your OP .... good idea to look at the whole site?

http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/report_scam.html