Some c*nt online shop...

[Mudskipper]

...HAS passed my email address to 3rd parties. Tick boxes declining this privacy violation seem to be ignored.

I got hardly any spam, and no phishing/virus emails to this particular hotmail account I have, until I started christmas shopping online, that is.

Then I get a phishing attempt from someone purporting to be HSBC, THREE purporting to be Alliance & Leicester (I bank with neither) a 'Lottery Win of $1million' and a particulary nasty one which poses as 'A friend has sent you a Hallmark card' with the 'link' taking you to a *.exe file of God knows what nastiness.

They all have logos & all, still some appalling pidgeon english, but the cheek of one of the A&L ones, actually uses some of the real phishing warning wording!! Cheeky bastards.

Fair play for the Hotmail spam filter for catching them all.

A&L one using parts of actual phishing warning wording:

[Whosthedaddy]

The amount of spam and dodgy emails my wife gets is unreal.

Managed to unsubscribe from a big fistful and then its just random, non whimsical nonsense not even addressed to her email address that you can't. Even her own email address has started sending spam and crap?

Grrrr!

[Kickstart]

[kitty kat]

I keep getting e-mails about 'my' accounts with A&L and other banks, funny really as I only have 1 bank account and have never received an e-mail from them.
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[Blackwolf]

Yep i got one too, even tho ive never put a foot into a Halifax bank...

[Dragonfly]

I get loads ! the flava or the last two days is soldiers looking to give me money. I get loads of phishing ones from banks I am not with. Lottery wins etc

I noticed however when I changed my email address on ebay,paypal and tesco I got loads in my other email from all the above. I got the odd money debt one for some reason before that and now its everyone emailing me asking me for money or telling me they want to give me money and phishing scams. So one of them sites I changed with passed my addy on.

[PsychoHippy]

The give away is always the 'Dear Customer' bit. No bank will ever call you that in an offical communication, they know what your name is and will use it.
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[MarJay]

Dear customer,

You are too stupid to use a computer, and therefore you should give me all of your bank details including your pin numbers. I'll try to trick you into thinking I'm from Nigeria, and I have a vast amount of cash to deposit in your account.

I am however working for the russian mafia for subsistence wages and I'm kept in this cold dark cellar working on an ancient 486 trying to stop my family from taking a dirt nap.

Yours sincerely,

Barclays Bank/HSBC/TSB/RBS/Santander/LLoyds/delete as appropriate.
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[MattHirst]

I never seem to get any spam to my proper email accounts, but to my hotmail i get alsorts of rubbish. Just as well i don't use it.

I'm with Lloyds TSB and everytime i logon to my internet bank (through the internet browser, not an email) i get a message saying 'we haven't emailed you in *insert amount of weeks here*, if you get an email from us, it is most likely that it isn't unless you requested us to email you. Please delete the email immediatley and report it to our team' or something along those lines.

Even if you know the link is 99% genuine, it is better to load up IE/firefox and go to the website yourself, rather than following a link. Some of these bank detail robber people actually make pretty good fake emails and they could very easily be mistaken for a genuine email by someone that isn't very 'techy' (i'm guessing older people are specifically at risk)
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[The Artist]

Thats nothing. I get between 80-120 spam emails a day. Admittadly GMAIL is good at filtering them out and hardly ever get spam in my inbox or good mail in my spam but I still check.

Most are selling viagra, cialis, bank loans, get rich quick schemes and replica watches.

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

Contact the banks in the e-mails (the legitimate versions of them). They do actually have teams of people (probably one uber geek) who try to stop this and enjoy tracking down and where possible prosecuting people who are using their trademarks illegally. One thing banks actually do right!

[Mudskipper]

[Nufkamp]

I use Gmail, and to their credit they catch almost all the cr@p, I probably get less than 5 a week that make it through. When I go into the spam folder it's about 50% replica watches and 50% viagra/cialis/bigger knob tablets. Haven't had a 419'er or a phishy bank one for ages.
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[TomR6]

I have 2 email addresses to avoid crap like that, have one for important things, and have the one for my msn and buying stuff online, not too bothered about whats in there.
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[bazza]

Don't give your real email to sites that insist on it - use something like https://www.mailinator.com or https://slopsbox.com


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[Nufkamp]

Another good site is https://www.jetable.org/en/index which creates an addy that lasts for only 30 days. Perfectly long enough for registering on websites.
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[Major_Grooves]

Someone I know (here?) used to have a domain name that was used solely for setting up email addresses. They enabled the catch-all, then whenever they signed up for anything, they would use the company name in the email address.

e.g. if they were signing up to be a member of BCF, they would enter their email address as [email protected]

That way if they ever got any spam they could instantly tell who had passed their details on. I think they caught out more than one company in this way.
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[bazza]

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That would be me Major Grooves, however using a catchall, they eventually get a hold of your domain name and start sending stuff to random names at the domain... So I get stuff to '[email protected]' and '[email protected]'

Latest one I had was spam from Brothers Cider to '[email protected]' or something like that. A good tip is not to post up email addresses like the above; spiders trawl the internet looking for just such things, I wouldn't be surprised if they also look for people separating them with spaces and the word at.

Due to the random names @ my domain, at some point I'll lock it down and do it so only ones I 'allow' will get to me - need to find an easy way to do this, so that I can do it from anywhere (ie so I can use an easy web-form on my fancy mobile, etc.)

Once you've started get spam, there's no real way to stop it apart from spam filters (which I always end up checking myself anyway).

[Phoenix]

An insurance company did the same to me, I always make sure when filling any online forms in I check the right boxes, and I'm well aware some are opt-in and some opt-out. A company fowarded my email address to a marketing company called "The Trading Floor". I now get endless emails from them all sent to the email address I use for anything insurance/car/house related so can't block them. I've tried to remove myself from the list endless times and I rang the company in the end to get it stopped and he confirmed it may take a month for it all to stop, it's been about 8months and it still won't stop if the place was local i'd be knocking doors down.

[ms51ves3]

I still haven't picked up my 42" plasma telly

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