Virgin Media Fishing

[Crazyface]

BEWARE! The wife got a VM fishing e mail a few days ago, she only opened it yesterday. I thought it was dodgy as they quoted her e mail as the one for our VM account. This is not correct. It asked to go to her A/C to update her Bank details as there had been a problem obtaining money to pay standing order and we were about to be cut off. I told her to contact VM (she was a bit concerned, I didn't think she believed me it was fishing). The bloke at VM confirmed it was fishing and asked her to post it on VM fishing forum or summat to warn others. Thing is she could get this to work so I'm letting you know on here and also why don't VM do this for their customers?

 

[BTatHome]

Didn't realise VM was so much into angling to have its own forum

 

[Crazyface]

Didn't realise VM was so much into angling to have its own forum

Funny funny. Another rib gone.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

If you hover your mouse over the sender name it will show you the email address it was sent from. Should be able to work out from that if it is genuine or spam.

I'm forever getting emails from people claiming to be ebay or paypal and the address is just a load of random letters like ehgtsbxr[B]@carp.com[/B]

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[BTatHome]

If you hover your mouse over the sender name it will show you the email address it was sent from. Should be able to work out from that if it is genuine or spam.

I'm forever getting emails from people claiming to be ebay or paypal and the address is just a load of random letters like ehgtsbxr@crap.com

Cant believe you didn't use carp.com for the email address!!

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Cant believe you didn't use carp.com for the email address!!

Fixed just for you :rofl:

 

[woody69]

I can't believe these phishing emails actually work. They are usually so poorly worded, or contain really generic information, such as Dear Customer, or Deal email_address.

 

[Khamelion]

Most if not all email applications and or AV software come with a built in SPAM filter and most providers allow you to have multiple mail boxes(accounts) a useful way of weeding out the crap, is to create a junk email address, one that is still legit and will allow mail to be sent.

What I mean is:

Your real email joe.bloggs@realISP.com anything you want to keep or anything you sign up for that you want or anything official (insurance etc..) use this email.

however if you are signing up to a forum, or website as a one off, competitions etc.. create an email like

joe.bloggspam@realISP.com

then in your email program create a rule that send anything sent to the spam email address to a folder where you can keep or delete as required.

Of course this doesn't stop the crooks targeting your real email address, but it cuts out a lot of the rubbish you get when you email address is sold on.

 

[BTatHome]

If you use gmail you don't even need to create extra accounts. You can modify your existing address and add extra chars onto the end to allow you to filter them.