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« on: January 25, 2012, 09:47:33 PM » |
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Over the last couple of weeks we have had about 7 or 8 e-mails apparently from various banks, claiming that a third party has either accessed or tried to access our accounts. Some have been from banks that we have an account at, some not. Needless to say they get deleted without being opened
Has anyone else noticed this?
It's very tiresome fending off all this rubbish from bored geeks in some smelly bedroom.
Desp
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 10:01:34 PM » |
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Over the last couple of weeks we have had about 7 or 8 e-mails apparently from various banks, claiming that a third party has either accessed or tried to access our accounts. Some have been from banks that we have an account at, some not. Needless to say they get deleted without being opened
Has anyone else noticed this?
It's very tiresome fending off all this rubbish from bored geeks in some smelly bedroom.
Desp
It's not that smelly, I just forgot to get a new glade refill. Now back to this deal with my Nigerian friend Prince Afra Kan. I've recently been getting lots of calls from some Asian country, they always want to know what type of telly I've got. When I refuse to tell them, they usually get quite (or extremely) nasty. Anyone else had this? I'm thinking of just giving any model, and then waiting to see who calls next, and on what pretext! Mart. |
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 10:18:31 PM » |
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Desp, small wonder the bedroom is smelly,There are other correct places to do their phishing. Biff  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 10:34:53 PM » |
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I wonder why the real banks don't make some effort to stop this kind of thing. I heard of someone who did lose quite a lot to one of these scams, I think the that the person, that I don't know personally, may have had a slight mental handicap. There is no facility to get the money back even though there would have to be real bank accounts involved in such transactions. Individual cases don't get publicity because they don't go to court.
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2012, 11:25:36 PM » |
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I wonder why the real banks don't make some effort to stop this kind of thing. Some of us forward to Spamcop and from there it's auto-sent to domain name registars, ISPs and the banks. http://www.spamcop.net/ |
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 01:19:30 AM » |
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I don't think we have any hope as long as credit card companies ring me when I've written to query something and start of with 'Can I just take you through security' to which my answer is 'no, because I don't know who you are'. When I ask if I can ask them a few security questions they refuse to, at least until they've verified that I am who I say I am - even though they've rung my telephone number! They assure me they are the credit card company, but when they withhold their telephone number, I can't check on my phone display to make sure they are real. I explain this to them, and they think they've got me by saying how else would they know what I'd written to them about.....perhaps you're someone who intercepted the letter - I guess that a dishonest postie might make a fair bit of cash intercepting mail to credit card companies.
I might be playing devil's advocate, but this is serious stuff. Most of the financial institutions regurgitate their 'security' processes without a thought as to what they're trying to protect, and how they're trying to protect it. When they emulate the spoof phishy phonecalls that we're supposed to be watching we don't fall for, it's hardly any surprise that so much of it goes on.
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2012, 09:58:36 AM » |
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ditto - but with phone companies - asking to verify my details over the phone - you rang me - who the hell are you? I ask them simple things like - whats my postcode, or house name - they always refuse. Why should I give my DOB to some forigner ringing me?
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2012, 11:11:31 AM » |
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Add Bruce Schneier's new book, coming out in a few weeks, to your reading list. It's all about trust and how it works in the 21st century. His 'Secret's and Lies' is good too. |
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 03:17:33 PM » |
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I am having a similar problem with the Inland Revenue wanting to do an investigation for a previous year but are not quoting the actual accounts figures displayed on the computer file. Also the office dealing with it is addressed in Wales. I ignored for a start but they have now come back with standard inland revenue letter about penalties for not sending information. Surely if it was legitimate they would have the correct accounts figures.
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2012, 05:22:48 PM » |
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I doubt that the genuine HMRC would contact you by E mail, or even phone but would write using snail mail. If you have an accountant who prepares your accounts I suspect that the HMRC's first point of call would be that person. Like the posters above I get 5-10 email a day from spurious banks all of which get deleted. I have never done either telephone banking or internet banking so why do I need to renew my security code........... Possibly some nice chap in Nigeria. to be politically correct, (other spammers are avaliable)
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 06:59:31 PM » |
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When Ive been contacted by hmrc it was by letter to me not the accountant) - despite various attempts on my part to work online - post only ever worked. If in doubt call the number you find on line (not on the letter) and ask to be transfered to the correct department - seams they take internal calls quicker than direct dial ins ! They also always had the account code and details and a specific referance. (in blood if I recall )....
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