Barclays Fake eMail

matrhos

matrhos

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I usually have a chuckle at the spoof e-mails that appear in my inbox that try to wring my bank and credit card details out of me, but I have just recieved one that scared me.

It is a spoof email from Barclays asking me to confirm my details etc. etc. etc. The usual stuff. What scared me is the fact that the e-mail used my real name (prefixed with a Mr/Mrs!) and listed my full address in the e-mail! How did they get this info? Should I be worried that someone has me details??

It is definately a fake - apart from my personal details, it is identical to known scams listed on the Barclays website.

Anyone had their correct details listed on a scam email?
 
Well, this really bugs me but under the law companies can sell your details e.g. address, name, marrital status and e-mail address. Its nothing to be really worried about at all but it is seriously annoying. Contact Barclays for clarification on the issue and see what they say about it.
 
I usually fill the boxes in as so:

First Name- Get lost.
surname- You filthy scamming
Town- ****** ******.
ACC No- 1234567890000.
 
One of our clients got a wierd one, got a email from thier bank saying there IP had changed since they last logged on, was a spoof one, but very strange
 
I was advised never to even open these as the sender will be able to tell that you have done so and will continue to send stuff. Best to delete them without opening them.
 
Preview pane in outlook must really kill me :p

They could only tell if you downloaded a picture, or accepted a read recipt :p
 
matrhos said:
I usually have a chuckle at the spoof e-mails that appear in my inbox that try to wring my bank and credit card details out of me, but I have just recieved one that scared me.

It is a spoof email from Barclays asking me to confirm my details etc. etc. etc. The usual stuff. What scared me is the fact that the e-mail used my real name (prefixed with a Mr/Mrs!) and listed my full address in the e-mail! How did they get this info? Should I be worried that someone has me details??

It is definately a fake - apart from my personal details, it is identical to known scams listed on the Barclays website.

Anyone had their correct details listed on a scam email?
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Hi there,

Theres an awful lot of this at the moment, and I'm one of the poor souls dealing with it :)

If you would be so kind as to forward the mail you recieve to:

[email protected]

And we'll deal with it :)
 
I had one the other day that linked to the proper barclays anti-fraud site as a bit of reverse-psychology.

This stuff irritates me as its not only fraud, its intelligent fraud. And its played out on the innocent ffs :mad:
 
DJWeasel said:
i have recieved loads in the last couple of days, the thing is i dont even bank and never have with barcleys
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Thats because, lad, it isnt Barclays sending them ;)
 
yermum said:
I was advised never to even open these as the sender will be able to tell that you have done so
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Outlook Express is set by default to not download any images, so AFAIK the sender should not be able to determine that you have opened the email, or your IP address etc.
 
Cheers for the heads-up.

I'm with Barclays, so this thread is of more appeal to me than others.
 
dirtydog said:
Outlook Express is set by default to not download any images, so AFAIK the sender should not be able to determine that you have opened the email, or your IP address etc.
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OE does d/l them by default because the default option is view emails as they were sent, or html. I know because I've had to set it up a few times recently, and I remember the rigmarole :)

It really gets on my nerves that so much html stuff comes through from the people you are subscribed to, but they don't have any option for plain text only. :mad:
 
When you've got SP2 it stops Outlook Express downloading the pictures automatically :)

Outlook 2000 will whatever though but Outlook XP and 2003 also stop automatically downloading pictures
 
Make sure that you report it to Barclays, banks take these things very seriously. I had one a few months ago asking me to confirm my NatWest details, although I knew it was a scam anyway, Eudora immediately detected the phishing page before the mail was even opened. \O/ Yay for Eudora. :)
 
Ive had two of these this week, but as i have not used my account since i was 16, when i emptied it before moving to NI, i just deleted them... :D

I feel sorry for the suckers that fall for this stuff, ISP's should be doing more to regulate emails and block spam, not like it would be too hard, i used to work for BT and did tech support for several virtual ISP's for them, Talk 21 was the biggest problem with spam and people sending some right dirty emails around LOL.. With a few simple filter and somebody monitoring the system, they could seriously reduce unwanted mail, but they just wont spend the money !!!
 
Amleto said:
OE does d/l them by default because the default option is view emails as they were sent, or html. I know because I've had to set it up a few times recently, and I remember the rigmarole :)

It really gets on my nerves that so much html stuff comes through from the people you are subscribed to, but they don't have any option for plain text only. :mad:
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Yes as said above, OE SP2 doesn't do that - all images are blocked. When you click to display them, only then do they download :)
 
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