Spoof spam phishing emails from BT ebay or paypal

[PeckhamRose]

Trust me on this:

BT

IF you get any emails seemingly from BT, on any email clients whether BT or not, please forward them TO:

[email protected] UNLESS YOU KNOW that it is from BT ie. it doesn't ask you for information but that you can check on your own 'My BT' website that, say, you have a message about your bill.

EQUALLY email him after you have had a telephone call from an Indian telling you he or she is from BT and they give an anglicised name, ESPECIALLY if they appear to know your account number. They have done this to me twice, cited my account number, but when I ask them what my name is, they hang up. Tell D Reynolds this - time and date of call and exactly what they said. Try and keep pen and paper by your (landline) phones for this purpose.

eBay

If you get any emails from eBay that aren't the usual ones about forthcoming free insertion weekends, forward them to:

[email protected]

PayPal

If you get any emails from PayPal that ask you for information or a link to your putting your info in, forward these emails to:

[email protected]

From ebay and Paypal you'll get an auto reply then another saying whether it was spoof or not.

You may not hear from D Reynolds at BT but in his heart he'll thank you.

Edited to add the phonecall section on the BT bit.

Peckham Rose. The one and only genuine.

[ianr]

> They have done this to me twice, cited my account

> number, but when I ask them what my name is, they hang up.

Did they definitely cite what you know to be your account number?

[PeckhamRose]

Yes. Three times. I know my BT Customer number off by heart (though checked when they called me first). I'm weird like that. Know my hospital number, passport and NI number. Can't explain how I can recall these things. I Just Do.

[PeckhamRose]

I am bumping this just once, and hope you can all remember to do this, as it all really does help catch the phuykwitz who plague us all and have - with BT specially - conned people out of thousands. Not everyone is as sussed and smart and naturally cautious and untrusting as we are. Thanks.

Oh, and an Indian accent rang me yesterday claiming to be from Windows and he cited a long complicated number at me which I wrote down, and took his Anglicised name he'd forgotten how to spell and the American "1-800" number he gave as being from Brighton! Emailed that report to Dave the BT guy and he said that the long Windows number is a generic number which all computers have but it just sounds like it could be just one that we as individuals have. As soon as I asked Indian accent man if he had my name, he hung up.