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Advice : Physing emails.

BandOfBrothers
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

Hello Everyone. 

 

 

Phishing emails.

 

Today I received an email supposedly from my Internet Provider Bt Mail. It looks professional enough but after carefully reading it I noticed the Date it advised I needed to update my Bt Mail. 

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I ignored the email and logged into my Bt Account securely to check if any pending messages were asking me to Update. None were present. I've forwarded this email to phishing@bt.com

 

This made me think again especially at this time of year about unscrupulous person(s) doing this in order to gain access to people's email accounts / passwords and in some cases infecting your device(s) with Trojans / key loggers and viruses. 

 

So please be safe and not sorry.

 

  • Don't click on links within emails unless you know it's from a secure company you know. 
  • If in doubt log into your secured page to the site the email says its from and do what you need to from there. 
  • Forward any suspicious email to any available Phishing email address.
  • If you accidentally click on an enclosed link within a possible shady email then run a virus scan / sweep ASAP. 
  • Delete the possible Phishing email ASAP from your In-Box and Trash Folders. 
  • Do not click on innocent looking links within Social Media Instead Google for the Shops / Companies sites main page. 
  • Always read the incoming email carefully. Read it back a couple of times. 

More information from Action Fraud  here and from Vodafone here

 

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Current Phone  >

Samsung Galaxy s²³ Ultra 512gb Phantom Black.

 

 

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froggerty
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

Any Company that you have an account with, phone provider, electricity, gas and so-on, if they contact you by email they will within that email include a line 'account ending 1234', this will be the last 4 numbers of your account number, if this is not in the email or the numbers are different than those of your account it's a phishing scam communication. Any Company that you deal with online should include something that you recognise in their communications to you, if they don't then delete it.

jeffkinn
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

If there is any doubt, and frankly that's rarely the case, I will hover the mouse pointer over the link and a little pop upshows me the URL it's pointing to. 

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