Phishing

[ed_pete]

I've had three phishing emails from "Nationwide" BS in three days - anyone else get these? Has the security of the EDF been breached? I think we should be told...

[pablogrande]

I get the Nationwide ones all the time plus Halifax and Natwest

I think once your email address is out there it's pretty much impossible to stop them. I've never found a spam filter that's effective enough to block them with out losing legitimate emails too. One thing I do now is use 2 email addresses, one for friends/business the other for online shopping etc this has pretty much eliminated spam to the main email address and I just change the second one when gets on any lists.

If you want I can get you off the bank spamming lists, just send me your date of birth, account no' sort code and I'll sort it out;-)

[mockney piers]

I think I've had all three lately, but not to my EDF registered adress, but to the BITE one.

Seeing as mark was able to pick up their distribution list off the internet it doesn't bode well.

[ed_pete]

I have two email addresses but tend to use the same one all the time and I receive very little spam (no offers of viagra, appendige pumps etc). Could be down to NTL/Virgin Media possibly, or maybe my good luck.

[mockney piers]

I get very little, in fact I used to get none on the address I've mentioned, until the BITE episode.

One of the early spams even had a reference to beer in the evening on the spam they sent.

My first thought was collusion, but now I suspect it was just stupidity on their part.

[AnotherPaul]

I love getting the ones from the US midwestern bank, er hello?

It has to be said they are more realistic looking than they used to be, so much so I told my own bank to get lost before realising they were trying to contact me. How we laughed, then I told them to refund my charges and the laughter stopped.

Am proper sick of Viagra offers and share deals.

[mockney piers]

I just love the dreadful english employed by a man who purports to be the head of a multinational taking a very curious interest in little old me.

I particularly love the fact that I have to contact him on

head.of.the.bank.honest@goecities.1u7o_lfcd.kz

[*Bob*]

I won the Spanish Lottery (again!!) last week. So it looks like I will be able to buy Chav her rural retreat after all.

[mockney piers]

You too? Did you get it through real letter type mail? I was actually quite disturbed by that, it's one thing a pointless hotmail account being sullied, but my actual name by my actual address was a lot more unsettling.

But once again, why would anyone be persuaded that they've won the lottery on receiving a letter written by someone with a poor grasp of the lingo, on poorly photocopied cheap paper?

Someone must do, it's big business.

[peckhamboy]

I've won the Spanish Lottery at least twice now. Hopefully the money will come through soon - I've had to pay a fortune in taxes on it already, so once the Spanish red tape is cleared up I'm assured payment will be made very quickly. In the meantime, I've had to send them another cheque to cover the legal expenses. Still, it will all be worth it when I'm a multi-millionaire...

[pablogrande]

I kept getting the Viagra ones too, wouldn't mind so much but it was my girlfriend who was sending them:'(

[*Bob*]

I've had a couple of EuroLottery-type win-confirmations by email. But yes, I've also had one from the postie addressed to me personally.

It was such a bad photocopy I could barely read some of it. But as you say, there must be victims aplenty out there.

Viagra emails have subsided a little now.. replaced by this sort of thing:

Good day chas

Ooze confidence in every situation with your bigger and better penis

Rocky Gigstad

Nice use of the word 'ooze', I thought.

[AnotherPaul]

Apparently the adobe creative suite is retailing for an amazing $269, shame it only runs on a zx spectrum.

[boosboss]

I won a car yesterday1 just have to claim it within 14 days, if not someone else will get it

[Keef]

My yahoo address (EDF one) never gets any spam thankfully. My work address which I don't mess around with gets absolutely crammed with it!

[James]

Good day and God bless you Forum Users. My grandad, a millionaire oil magnate, just died in a plane crash off the Ivory Coast. Fortunately he has leave me the sum of ?45,000,000 to invest in shop selling expensive baby booties, chandeliers and ?15 sandwiches on Lordship Lane. Don't worry, it may seem like robbery but is all totally legal. Who want to help me?

[Domitianus]

James Wrote:

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> Good day and God bless you Forum Users. My

> grandad, a millionaire oil magnate, just died in a

> plane crash off the Ivory Coast. Fortunately he

> has leave me the sum of ?45,000,000 to invest in

> shop selling expensive baby booties, chandeliers

> and ?15 sandwiches on Lordship Lane. Don't worry,

> it may seem like robbery but is all totally legal.

> Who want to help me?

I'm up for that, James, but only if you allow me to send a cheque for five thousand pounds to a PO Box address in AMsterdam as an indication of my confidence in the venture.

Joking apart (and yes, I was joking) apparently up to six per cent of people receiving them fall for these phishing scams which kind of shows how dumb people are. I on the other hand am extremely clever - a fact that was clearly noticed by a Norweigan consulting firm I had never heard of who sent me a nice email asking if I wanted to be their MD in London. Quality will out!

[shaman]

Had so many of these with my yahoo account was unbelievable, tried googlemail no more dodgy emails worry about their keeping records of your activities but so glad nolonger getting viagra and bank detail trequests sometimes would be hundreds everytime opened box