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  • 8 months later...
Posted

Here's another one, that made me begin to doubt my scepticism.

 

I had a landline phone call, "THis is BT it's about your Internet service"    I told them to go away.

Before I sat down they rang again, "This really is BT,  we will send you an email."   Go away.

And again, "Please look for the email, to prove what I say."      GO AWAY! I'M BUSY!

But there was an email, apparantky from "btcomms@info.bt.com"

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Convincing, isn't it?     Was there really a problem with my Internet?    I had been busily surfing when they rang, no troubles.

So I used Google to find the BT webpage and their Broadband helplne, for online chat.      I told "Shovon" what had happened.  They said, give me a few minutes and your address.   No probs, this was the BT website that I had contacted.    And sure enough, a few minutes later they caame back - this is a phishing attack.      Ignore it.    Thank you for the details, our security team will pursue them!

So, maintain your scepticism!    Check with the real website of the company that someone purports to be, and in general ignore anyone who cold calls you!

JOhn

Posted

Mongrels works for me..... :blink:

I’d call them vermin though....

Good spot John, and somewhat alarming that they were able to use two forms of communication to bolster their claim!

  • 2 months later...
Posted

Just heard of a new scam, to me, anyway.

EG: sideways-technologies.co.uk and sideшays-technologies.co.uk are not the same!

Scammers can use this to send you to completely different website to the one you intended, for instance by advisng you to click on what appears to be a familiar URL.

John

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Gotcha!

Online, I came across an American, Mark Rober, who looks like any internet influencer dude, but is an imaginative engineer, and crime fighter.    Starting off because people stole parcels from his home's porch, he invented a "glitter bomb" - see the video - and then developed it, so much that he has been able to trace scammers in a big way.  Worth watching if you have half an hour!

 

Posted

They really do look most convincing.   I recived this today:

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The high lighting is because I sent a copy of the text to spam@lifelocknorton.com, which confirmed  that it was spam.   To misspell  my name was a give away!

Let's be careful, and suspicious, out there!

John

 

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted (edited)

Here's a new one, rather obvious, but anyway:

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That's it.     Right click on "Show source" and it reavels that is has been sent via "GoogleAPIS", a legitimate "Application Programming Interface" provided by Google that allows two applications to communicate, but one many cyber criminals (scammers) use to promote various 'tech' (technical) support scams.     Walgreens is, again, a legitimate online pharmacy, but I have no prior contact with them and never would.   And I'm certainly not clicking on their "Unsubscribe" button!     This ones going in the bin!

Let's keep safe out there!   

JOhn

Edited by JohnD
Posted

Both myself and Mrs SS have had these, from both "Norton" and "McAfee", telling us that we will be "unprotected" if we don't "ACT NOW!!!"

Using the Report as Spam function does not seem to work that well, presumably as the sender address is different each time, albeit containing our first and/or surname within the address.

Posted

Walgreens do seem to be respectable.  They have replied to my forwarding the above emails to them, as follows:

Dear John Davies,

Thank you for contacting Walgreens.com customer service. This is in response to your e-mail regarding your inquiry.  

We apologize, what you experienced does not appears to be a valid Walgreens communication. We advise you to not act on, access, or respond to the message you received. Please be aware that Walgreens does not solicit personal information from customers via the method you encountered. Additionally, Walgreens promotions will ask you to log-in to your secure online account to receive any reward or promotional offer. 

·         Walgreens.com sends e-mails from the below e-mail addresses. E-mails received from other e-mail addresses are most likely not associated to Walgreens.com in any way.

balancerewards.community@mail.walgreens.com
contactus@mail.Walgreens.com
customercare@walgreens.com
customerservice@mail2.walgreens.com
customerservice@walgreens.com
donotreply@mail.walgreens.com
donotreply@photo.walgreens.com
ecomsupportcco@walgreens.com
reply2refill@mail.walgreens.com
service@photo.walgreens.com
walgreens@e.walgreens.com

walgreens@ecs.walgreens.com
walgreens@re.walgreens.com


If you would like to know more about our Online Privacy and Security Policy, please visit:
www.walgreens.com/privacy
 

 We at walgreens.com look forward to assisting you. 

 Ashley C

 877-250-5823 

http://www.walgreens.com 

Toll-free: 877-250-5823 

24 hours a day / 7 days a week 

 For our Online Privacy & Security Policy visit:

http://www.walgreens.com/topic/help/generalhelp/privacyandsecurity.jsp

 

Can't say fairer than that!  If you are ever concerned lest some  email is real or not, contact the alleged sender, independently.      Find their 'Contact' email address, or their website using Google or your favourite web browser, forward them the email in question or otherwise ask, is this from you?

John

Posted

Yep. Got two texts yesterday purporting to be from Hermes saying I had missed a delivery and to go to a link.

I was expecting stuff from Hermes and link address looked like it could be real but go to my search engine du jour and sure enough none of the Hermes sites have that address format. 

Persistent blastards.

Decent response from Walgreens but having said that they seem to have an excessive number of addresses so going to be hard to identify a dodgy one up front. 

  • 2 months later...
Posted (edited)

Have we had this one before?    A Facebook Messenger Trojan!

You get a message from a friend, someone you know and trust.   I've had them that look like a still from a video with a "YouTube video" mark, and the heading "Look what I found" .     OR, saying "I think you are in this video" with a hyperlink.       DO NOT CLICK ON EITHER!    I've just had the latter from two different friends, so it's out there, watch for it.

If you do click, the malware downloads into your device, steals the addresses of your friends and sends all of them the same message, with its poisonous payload.    Trojans can carry other malware with them, some quite dangerous, that can look for your bank details, for instance.      Phones and PCs are vulnerable.    The malware persists and goes on sending itself to any new address on your list, and of course anything else it is programmed to do.

Just delete, and warn your trusted friend that they may need to scrub their hard disk, hard, to remove it.     My Norton couldn't get it out, I had to use Cr*pCleaner.    And of course change all your passwords.

It's a wicked world out there!     

John

Edited by JohnD

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