Spam Emails

Started by pierre the shy, 04 April 2018, 07:50:33 PM

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pierre the shy

Just a heads up.....got a spam email this morning purporting to come from Pendraken just saying "Hi" and a link to click.

Deleted as spam as I don't think PM have moved to Luxemburg (had a .lu suffix)  ;)

beware of phishing/scam emails and don't click on links you don't trust!   

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Techno

Good heads up, Peter.

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Leon

We've had a couple of reports of this today, so apologies to folks.  Annoyingly none of them have actually come from us, but they've got the 'Pendraken' label on them and then d.pengilley@... with a random ending.  We've changed our email passwords just to be on the safe side, but I think this goes back to the security breach that Yahoo had a couple of years back. 

In better news though, we'll be stopping the d.pengilley email very soon and moving over to a proper @pendraken email instead.
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Thanks

For UK residents I got a call purporting to be from HMRC saying I was being sued by them, rubbish !
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Had a call from Robert/Gupta yesterday. claiming BT was going to close down my internet connection for a week. I told him not to be silly and hung up.
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mollinary

I had one at 8pm claiming to be from BT  saying they could offer me 95% off my mobile phone rate. I told them to write to me.

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Last Hussar

Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 April 2018, 12:31:26 PM
Thanks

For UK residents I got a call purporting to be from HMRC saying I was being sued by them, rubbish !

Are you sure you don't owe tax? - I used to make phone calls like that and I DID work for HMRC.
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paulr

I got a call from London on my mobile last night that immediately hung up

Apparently the scam is that if you call the number back it goes to a special service that is billed at a ridiculous rate
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Quote from: Last Hussar on 05 April 2018, 09:30:54 PM
Are you sure you don't owe tax? - I used to make phone calls like that and I DID work for HMRC.

I rang HMRC and asked, they said report to the Fraud web site.
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stenicplus

Quote from: Last Hussar on 05 April 2018, 09:30:54 PM
Are you sure you don't owe tax? - I used to make phone calls like that and I DID work for HMRC.

Sure you weren't just on the scrounge and working for HMRC was a coincidence?  ;D