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We've received a few lately too. One is from Apple, a very legit looking receipt for some or other software on iTunes for £18, which has a link you can click on in case this was fraudulent and you need to report it. This is of course a phishing site.

Got another one, pretty much exactly the same, but this time it was Amazon, we apparently bought something on Amazon apps or something.

Both had impeccable timing too, no longer than a week after my wife got an iphone and the same for a Fire stick.

Very odd.
 
mrk said:
VM's email system runs off the Gmail engine (unless this has now changed).
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They're changing it atm, half of mine have moved off the gmail servers so far. I still use my @ntlworld.com addresses and still have them in Outlook via pop/smtp :).

Been getting these for the last fortnight though just plain text versions with links and nothing close to like the bill mail that ones meant to copy.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
Why would you fall for this when it has such a obviously fake email address? It ends in .fr for christ sake, of course it isn't from Virgin Media.
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Not every email client shows the incoming email address by default. Windows Mail for example, which a huge amount of people will use, just shows the name and you have to click it to show the address.
 
I'm surprised the spammers don't fish with fake adverts rather than the obvious ones they've been using for years. Many people won't click links in emails that are anything to do with accounts but will quite happily click on a link for 10% off a sound card or whatever. I know i sometimes have a bad habit of doing that, especially if it's from a company i'm used to getting promo mails from like OCUK.
 
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