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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Most of the time I just delete them, and block the senders email address, but I got one tonight supposedly from the Abbey National, who I have never banked with.
I clicked on the link, made up some random numbers, put my name as Michael Mouse with an email address of [email protected].
Childish I know but what the hell.
I'd leave the attempts at being clever out of this and just delete them, it's much safer.
Many financial institutions and Ebay have addresses to which these phishing e-mails may be forwarded. These are usually in the form of spoof@ followed by the web address. i.e. [email protected] It may not achieve much on an individual basis, but unless these are reported, nothing can be done to stop them.
I normally forward and then delete them. As stevie said, whatever you do, don`t reply to them even with false details, for the reasons he mentioned.