Scam or not

[williamalex1]

I just received an email supposedly from a Susan McKenzie @ Hotmail, saying my hotmail email account needs renewing or it will expire 15th of next month . Anyone heard of this ??

 

[Hobbit]

Don't listen to him. I'll do it for £2,000 and 3 cans of Irn Bru.

 

[williamalex1]

You 2 sound just like my new Nigerian uncle

 

[KenL]

Ignore it.

 

[Robin Hood]

Definitely ignore it

 

[Hobbit]

Withdraw your offer and I'll give you the 2K plus 10 cans.

A counter offer. £1.5k, 10 cans and 3 bags of roasted peanuts... and I'm not phoning a friend.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I often get the one that says my storage is full, emails will stop, follow the link to pay for extra space. They go straight into my spam box now but sadly someone out there will panic and send them money.

 

[Old Skier]

Watch out for the BBC one saying your direct debit hasn't been paid and give you a link to renew your license.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Stuff the $5,000. I know someone who will do it if you replenish his personal stock of range balls.

 

[Piece]

I just received an email supposedly from a Susan McKenzie @ Hotmail, saying my hotmail email account needs renewing or it will expire 15th of next month . Anyone heard of this ??

I think I’ve had 100 emails from ‘Sky’ saying I need to log in otherwise my account will deactivate. I will log in and pay some money to get me back up and running.

NOT!

 

[Blue in Munich]

I just received an email supposedly from a Susan McKenzie @ Hotmail, saying my hotmail email account needs renewing or it will expire 15th of next month . Anyone heard of this ??

First thing with all of these, is it addressed to you, Fred Bloggs, or dear customer, or something similarly generic & nondescript. If it's addressed to you, do something about it; if it's not addressed directly to you consign it to the waste bin of cyberspace.

Unless you're clever enough to be able to put your "bank details" in a link, which, when they click on it, downloads the computer equivalent of Covid 19 onto their server.

Anyone else noticed a huge increase in this crap since Covid 19 started?

 

[Orikoru]

First thing with all of these, is it addressed to you, Fred Bloggs, or dear customer, or something similarly generic & nondescript. If it's addressed to you, do something about it; if it's not addressed directly to you consign it to the waste bin of cyberspace.

This is not true at all, if I look in my spam folder now there are countless items with my name on them.

 

[williamalex1]

It only mentioned my email address, not my name. I deleted it right away.

 

[upsidedown]

Watch out for the BBC one saying your direct debit hasn't been paid and give you a link to renew your license.

We had that one last week and were able tip the MiL about it too

 

[rosecott]

I normally report them as phishing to my mail provider - Outlook. Don't know if that does any good or not.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

First thing with all of these, is it addressed to you, Fred Bloggs, or dear customer, or something similarly generic & nondescript. If it's addressed to you, do something about it; if it's not addressed directly to you consign it to the waste bin of cyberspace.

Unless you're clever enough to be able to put your "bank details" in a link, which, when they click on it, downloads the computer equivalent of Covid 19 onto their server.

Anyone else noticed a huge increase in this crap since Covid 19 started?

Better still, hover your mouse pointer over the linky and you can read what the address is that they want to take you to. DO NOT CLICK ON IT THOUGH. It will not be the genuine web address of your supposed subject