Scams, scams & more scams

Steve, they get ever creative, luckily we have the best defence available-our brain, backed up by varying degrees of common sense. Cynicism plays a part too. My default position is-'it's a scam' then the rest is used prior to opening anything.

Had one yesterday purported from my brother.Everything looked OK but the e mail address was slightly different to my brothers. Took the precaution to change my various pass words and PINS just in case.

At work,  have started to receive emails that say our invoice is attached, I didn't recognise the sender so luckily didn't open the attachment,  just Deleted User email. Could so easily have opened it. 

i think I would find it a bit difficult to keep on changing my passwords and Pins. Would take nearly all ady. So far, fingers crossed, I've spotted the scams and Deleted User them all and my security has weeded out the malware. Yes, you certainly have to be on the ball these days.

 'The attachment to this email has been cleaned of a virus'  seems to be the latest gimmick ....have had around a dozen in the last week.   It is surely so pathetic that someone must be just having a laugh? No idea if the attachments are actually dangerous ..... and not intending to try to find out!

There also seems to be a fresh rash of address book entries being hacked.  (emails purporting to come from people you know but containing spam links).  Thought these had died out of boredom several years ago.

It's tedious I know but, whenever I get spam emails, I move them to Junk and then block the sender.  It's one less to get through a second time.  

Thanks Jill, that last bit about remembering to block the sender is helpful, I have not done that untill now.

TF

I've had one from Regal Furnishings this morning.  They're the company who do caravan re-upholstery, and we have had a quote from them for altering our Adria cushions and splitting them.

This was definitely a scam email -  and had a very dubious attachment - but beware anyone, who is currently having genuine dealing with Regal, that you don't receive similar scam emails.

Is nothing sacred anymore?  I was surprised to find that SAGA had apparently sold our details to a shirt manufacturer Charles Tywritt (or similar.)  How long before they sell my email adddress to anyone else?

I certainly won't be buying a holiday from that company again!

I would have thought that Acromas Holidays (Saga) could keep customer details confidential.

RF, they couch it in words like-'we may share your details with trusted partners' that means they'll flog you to the highest bidder. If you see that read the small print, it will also be couched in legalise that you can't understand, yup it's sharp practice