Silly Emails

[kloofnek]

I get emails from banks telling me ,for example...my account needs updating or some such thing like that.
The latest is from Santander informing my account is about to expire...I DON`T have an account with them!!!!

I never open these emails but discard of them straight away...I know they are a con either to get one`s personal banking details or contain a virus...but do these people honestly think that other people are stupid enough to open these emails if they do not belong to any of the banks mentioned.I suppose they take a chance that one does.

These emails so annoy me...had another this morning!!!

[emmie]

if you put them in your spam folder, then after a while delete them. you should find they will ease off.. not saying that will happen, but that is what i do. I was getting e mails to do with viagra, don't ask me why...

[RATTER15]

They only hope that occasionly someone with such an account will be foolish enough to put in their details and I'm sure they do, especially the elderly and those new to computing who aren't aware of these scams

[factor-fiction]

I agree. I suppose some people must fall for them- I do worry for example that a teenager who is new to a bank or Paypal may fall for it. I suppose it only needs one in a 100 to fall for it and it's worth it to the phishers.

I get lots and report them to addresses such as spoofpaypal.com I then get an acknowledgement thanking me and saying "we are working hard to eliminate ..etc" but the following day I get an identical phishing email so I do wonder whether these companies really do care or can do anything.

I wish it was possible to levy some sort of notional charge of maybe 1p to be made for sending an email, because that may put off these scammers.

[emmie]

my bank sends out letters about scamming, saying ignore everything you are asked about your account on line, like account numbers, updating, loans etc.

[RATTER15]

FF, 1p an email and success rate of 1 in a 100. £1.00 for access to your entire bank account is pretty good to a crook.

[yogasun]

I do what Factor does and forward them to the appropriate phishing section of the Bank/B. Soc/Paypal etc but only once have I had an acknowledgement. They must be inundated.

[Canary42]

They send out millions of these e-mails - so even if 999 out of every thousand reject them, the positive response would still yield handsome returns.

[RATTER15]

I get a few of these also, I just always make sure I only ever access my account via a direct link that I always use, never a link from any email. Also my virus scanner will alert me if I put my banking details into any other site.

[sandyRoe]

I know that when you get an e-mail from Nationwide they put your postcode on it. That's a good idea. They know it, you know it, but scammers couldn't.

[kloofnek]

I had one from PayPal at one time...I rang them to check on it...as it happens,it was genuine and told as long my name is on the email,would be ok to open.

[RATTER15]

I also get them from PayPal, I just delete them and access PayPal from my usual direct route, I know im a lot safer that way.

[factor-fiction]

I am going to stop forwarding the Paypal ones to their spoof reporting site, because when I tried to forward it yesterday it started downloading the attachment even though I hadn't clicked on anything. From now on I'll just delete them.

[aelmpvw]

according to an email received this morning i'm going to receive $85,000,000 from a nice man in Nigeria so i'm going to be too busy to chat on here

[mrs_overall]

These emails let me know about bank accounts I don't have and dead relatives I have never heard of who live abroad and have left me £millions.
The ones that really annoy me are for dating sites. So far I have had invitations to join dating sites for pensioners, Jews, Christians, Muslims and the disabled.

[wolf63]

I get at least 30 of these a day - they go into my SPAM folder. I check through them to make sure that nothing has gone into the folder by accident and then delete the rese. Every so often I see one that looks different and open it - some of them are so bad that they are funny.

[mrs_overall]

Oh, and don't get me started on emails offering to sell me viagra....

[humbersloop]

and surely russian brides have run out of people to marry by now??

[RATTER15]

lol mrs_O, so you need Viagra about as much as I need breast enlargement lol!!

[vulcan42]

I don't get any from dating sites, where am I going wrong?

[RATTER15]

Russian brides? Im missing out on those, which dodgy website did you go on to get those lol