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What should I do with the Phishing e-mail rubbish I continue to receive?

by Alan Gallon 25 May 2009 |

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Today's included a purported Lloyds Bank e-mail telling me that my account had been suspended. I forwarded it to: emailscams@lloydstsb.co.uk and to reports@banksafeonline.org.uk and then deleted it.

I have done this dozens of times without any acknowledgement. Am I wasting my time? Is anybody dealing with this problem?

I also get my share of e-mails offering me a share of a deceased beneficiary's funds, or telling me I have won first prize in an un-entered lottery. What should I do with these? Do the Police want them?

I also get e-mails offering me loans from unregulated and dubious organisations. I know the FSA does not do anything useful but surely it should be interested in this sort of thing.

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bimber posted
I don't care what you do with them, I've just won the Nigerian state lottery!!!
Posted on 25 May 2009 | Love 1 love Report
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SmudgeButt posted
I just log everything as phishing mail instead of forwarding it. I think that hotmail then will automatically mark the address as junk so that any further ones from the same address don't actually hit your IN box.
Quite frankly I keep waiting for a bank I do deal with ringing me up to ask why I haven't replied to an email - they all get dumped so I'm bound to miss something eventually.
Posted on 26 May 2009 | Love 0 loves Report
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SoftwareBear posted
Yup ... I had someone from Halifax trying to contact me ... but they'd phoned me ... then they got a bit uppity that I questioned them what the query was about before I would submit to their security check ...
Don't trust any phone calls or emails or even official looking letters notionally from your bank ... go into the branch and discuss it.
Posted on 26 May 2009 | Love 0 loves Report
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Alan Gallon posted
And this morning I've just won the Spanish Lottery. I've also been invited to take part in a fraud "Hello Friend! I am Dr. Martins Zuma, Director of Project, South Africa Department of Minerals and Energy. I am making this contact with you based on the Committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer.
"This amount $28 Million represents the balance of the total contract Value Executed on behalf of Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid.
"Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 25% of the $28 Million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
"To enable us commence, I will need your personal telephone/fax number."
What I want to see is some positive action against these crooks. I am sure lovemoney users are savvy enough not to fall for any of these scams. But, some people do (otherwise the crooks would not concoct these ludicrous e-mails).
Posted on 26 May 2009 | Love 0 loves Report
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Dave posted
I used to work with somebody who strung them along for a while with WesternUnion transfers in other names, etc... right up until they started to threaten him with violence so he stopped. AFAIK he hasn't been contacted since though.
There was a website dedicated to helping receivers of these emails with stringing the senders along and how to respond to certain requests once contact is made.
But I agree that the larger population is vulnerable and would like to see an end to these attacks, but I can't see one that works unilaterally.
Posted on 26 May 2009 | Love 1 love Report
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Roker posted
Set up a decoy email account, or use your old account as a decoy. When any company or organisation asks for email address give them this one. Use you main email address for friends etc. I get about a 100 a day junk selling me from Viagra to dating, in my decoy and delete them all in one go using "mail2web.com" , I do not even open them. It amazes me how they all get my email
Posted on 27 June 2009 | Love 0 loves Report

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