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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
