Fraud victim

There are basic rules that we ALL must follow:

If an email comes from an organisation we have a financial relationship with, NEVER follow a link they provide - contact them directly if you are concerned about the contact.

Have separate password for online transfers against telephone banking passwords
 
I would turn on two-factor authentication as an extra layer of protection.

Or not click the dodge link to the dodgy site, gmail seems to do a pretty good job of keeping all the fake emails out. In fact, i've never had one appear in my inbox. :p
 
The Geezer said:
There are basic rules that we ALL must follow:

If an email comes from an organisation we have a financial relationship with, NEVER follow a link they provide - contact them directly if you are concerned about the contact.

Have separate password for online transfers against telephone banking passwords
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This was where the system failed, I have never used telephone banking but it was there and had no password connected to it.

even with all my paypal details they couldn't transfer any across into paypal as its all in a saving style account and I transfer its across as and when i need it.

I now have a password on my telephone banking. ( i didn't even know i had telephone banking)
 
Ouch! In future be more careful! That email has lots of giveaways, Don't do anything money related when half asleep!

Had one that I had to think twice about the other day, a text from NatWest with the usual suspicious activity message. But it also stated it came from Natwest and followed on from any other text they've send me so it appeared genuine. Had to google it to discover these scammers can spoof where texts come from. Gotta be careful guys!
 
tbh I've nearly fallen for one of those paypal ones while tired, they're getting more and more convincing these days. Unfortunately once I clicked on the link, while not giving any of my information out I had to change emails as it became an instant target for spam, changing email addresses for everything was nearly as stressful as getting my identity stolen!
 
kaptainmarc said:
I know how it was done, feel abit stupid for falling for it.

Paypal fake email being sent around that look genuine. saw it at 7am half asleep clicked it and "ammended my account" basically gave them everything. stupid mistake and lesson learnt

all my passwords have been changed. cards cancelled.

might cancel my paypal account and start a new one up just incase
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Dont tell the bank this... they will LAUGH
 
Diagro said:
Dont tell the bank this... they will LAUGH
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well you were wrong.

they actually said no problem we will get this sorted.

so you were a bit of the mark. They were the ones that let some one who wasn't me ring up and change everything. normally if you make a payment to another card like they did you get a call to set up a new recipient.

that didn't happen.
 
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