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Dodgey email
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I received today an email from Barclays bank " It's very dodgy". My question is what do I do with it now? Do I delete it? Or do I report it? And if so who do I report it to?
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Ukkid76
I received today an email from Barclays bank " It's very dodgy". My question is what do I do with it now? Do I delete it? Or do I report it? And if so who do I report it to?
Thanks
Ukkid76
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Its very very probably a technique called 'phishing' where an illigal organisation is trying to get you to give them your bank details including password account ono, login etc. The site that they will direct you to will look like a real bank site but will be slightly different.
Do not do anything with this e-mail - either delete it, or you can forward it to your bank with an attached note indicating when you received it and that you are suspicious.
Do not do anything with this e-mail - either delete it, or you can forward it to your bank with an attached note indicating when you received it and that you are suspicious.
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I have received these type of emails before, you just have to be on your gard all the time. I use yahoo email, and email retreived that Yahoo thinks are suspicious are put in a folder called 'bulk' rather than 'inbox' which I find quite useful. Remember if you get an email with a link and your asked to fill the form in with your details NEVER do it even if you think the email might be legit.
You can report it to http://www.antiphishing.org/
If the website that it links to is still active i.e. Barclays has not yet had it shut down yet you could phone them and let them know, however when I called HSBC to let them know about one last week all I got was a very confused Indian call-centre operative. It was however shut down by the next day.
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