carpmart
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 12:16 PM |
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Bank details mails - LOADS of mails being received
I've started to receive a steady stream of around five mails per day asking me to re-register my bank details with a variety of organisations.
They are all scams. I'm just curious if anyone else has seen a significant increase in this type of mail?
Anything I can do to stop it?
Thanks!
[Edited on 21/2/11 by carpmart]
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Xtreme Kermit
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 12:26 PM |
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Not seen this myself - but as usual with these things - Do Not Reply - as it just validates an address to target.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 12:41 PM |
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I get one or two every few days. PITA.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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blakep82
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 12:42 PM |
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yeah, hotmail junks them automaticaly for me. since 11th feb, i've got 13 of them, all from banks i've never been with, plus 2 HM customs
scams, and loads about my 'newsletter susbscription'... how was i ever going to beleive pedro basket is a real name?
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hughpinder
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 12:46 PM |
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I started getting loads of them last week - obviously trying the 'checking your secutiry details' ..... type scams.
Regards
Hugh
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Minicooper
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 01:08 PM |
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Same here, loads of them recently
Cheers
David
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scootz
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 01:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
I get one or two every few days. PITA.
+1 
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adithorp
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 01:11 PM |
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they tend to come in batches. Loads for a week or two then none for ages. I just delete without opening
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britishtrident
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 01:31 PM |
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An ISP mail box with good filtering would stop this crap before it got to you all our email accounts go through either a Plusnet or Zen accounts that
have spam filters that stop 99% of garbage.
We have more filtering on the business desktop Windows PC which runs K9 using both heuristic and strict blackhole filtering, Avira Premium Mail
Guard and also Thunderbird has the built in heuristic filter set up, resuly virtually zero spam gets into the inbox.
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bigrich
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 01:51 PM |
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same here, getting 3 or4 a week. just keep junking them and blocking sender
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HowardB
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 02:41 PM |
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if youcan step away from micro$oft, try thunderbird, it's spam handling is excellent.
hth
ps never use "out of office" as this handily responds to all mail and validates your address to the spammers
[Edited on 21/2/11 by HowardB]
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Grimsdale
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 04:15 PM |
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yep loads and load in the last couple of weeks!!
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dave r
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 06:15 PM |
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loads this last few weeks
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but this jacket makes it impossible.
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lotusmadandy
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| posted on 21/2/11 at 07:25 PM |
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Yup,i am getting loads lately.I cant seem to block em either.
Andy
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TheGecko
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 05:03 AM |
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I've had an upswing in the amount of these in the last week or two. The notable thing is that they're for UK based financial
organisations (I'm in Australia) and they're being sent to my LocostBuilders email address. I own my own domain names (several) and I
create a different destination address whenever I register an account somewhere. Assists greatly in identifying and combating spam.
So, the question to the LcoostBuilders admins is, has there been a breach of some sort allowing the harvesting of our email addresses?
Dominic
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gingerprince
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 07:25 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by carpmart
Anything I can do to stop it?
[Edited on 21/2/11 by carpmart]
Yep. U2u me your bank details and pin and i can add you to the global spam filter.
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DRC INDY 7
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 07:42 AM |
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me 2
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 07:59 AM |
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Been getting these for years, they just hit my junkbox. Some of them are for banks I've never been with (there aren't many) and the tax
office sending me money (still waiting for last year's), some survey things and drugs...
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Mike S
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 08:28 AM |
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Interesting.
I too have had loads. A couple per day at least.
Obviously deleting them, but it does beg the question how they got hold of our email address's.
Seems to have kicked off over the last few weeks. Maybe tied in with the recent site updates?
I wasn't sure where they got my email address, but it seems to be related to this site and is kind of confirmed by the posts above.
Probably too late to do anything now, but if the Chris or Fozzie could see if we have a problem with being compromised it might stop it happening
again?
Cheers
Mike
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 11:50 AM |
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Missus was getting things like this within an hour of creating an email address, I think some people have a program that sends it to every possible
email in the world
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Fozzie
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| posted on 22/2/11 at 12:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by TheGecko
I've had an upswing in the amount of these in the last week or two. The notable thing is that they're for UK based financial
organisations (I'm in Australia) and they're being sent to my LocostBuilders email address. I own my own domain names (several) and I
create a different destination address whenever I register an account somewhere. Assists greatly in identifying and combating spam.
So, the question to the LcoostBuilders admins is, has there been a breach of some sort allowing the harvesting of our email addresses?
Dominic
I damn well hope not! ..... I have had more bank/scam mails than usual of late too ...
I will point ChrisW in the direction of this thread......but I think it is more of a 'chance' type event as per
'Ninehigh's' post.
Fozzie
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