Beware, Nasty sly B@st@rds about.

Try and persuade Egg to sign up to Iconix Email ID : http://www.iconix.com/protectsites.php
The primary purpose of the Iconix eMail ID plug-in is to authenticate and validate the source of an email message. As part of this process, it is necessary to analyize the sender's actual email address (not the name most people see in the "from" field).
Many banks Ebay, Paypal etc are signed up, and it appears to work well.
Free download:
http://www.iconix.com/index.php
 
If everyone started to respond with false details throughout even those of us who don't even have an egg account , wouldn't it stop the @@@@@ ?

At the moment they have minimum input and every reply will produce £5000.

If only 1 out of 10 000 replies actually had real information in then the lazy @@@@ would get fed up ?
 
Re: blocking phishing emails

I have an excellent piece of software called spamseive (http://c-command.com/spamsieve/), which works on my entourage email client and would work on any other too. I get roughly 10 emails of rubbish to each good one (i've had my biz email address a long time) and it's really worth it. It downloads everything but directs the junk to a special folder so I can scan it fast to see if it's caught something I want. Then you can delete the lot. Much quicker than doing them one at a time.

It was about $30 but I reckon it was well worth it. No connection with the company but a happy customer.
 
I received the following:-



Dear PayPal Member, Our comprehensive fraud-prevention program is one of the key reasons PayPal is a safe way to pay online. We believe that innovation and careful analysis is the way to beat fraud. That's why PayPal has developed industry-leading models to review every transaction, and help detect suspicious activity. Our Fraud Investigation Team has recently detect suspicious activity in your account. In order to continue to operate the PayPal service and to reduce the risk of fraud, PayPal Corp. ("PayPal" or "we") must ask you to provide us information about yourself and your credit card and/or bank account.


My reply was "Will I Hell as like!"
 
When these sites want you to reply they know your address but not your password. If I am not sure about a site I reply but use a false password. If the site is fraudulent it will accept ANY word - it is trying to get your password from you!
I have used "fraud" as a spoof password if I am at all suspicious. If the site is genuine it will reject it, if fraudulent it will accept it. (Unless your password if "fraud" in the first place)
 
As was previously stated, Orange restricts its spam filter to 100, which is as much use as a chocolate teapot. When my subscription runs out I will be terminating my Orange account for that reason.

I have installed Zone Alarm and it catches everything. Very powerful software that prevents virus, spyware, spamware, etc. Much better than Norton or McAfee.

My view is that if its important enough for your bank, building society or credit card company to make contact with you then they will use other forms of communication.
 
If you look at the source of the email, it will tell you where the email originated.
I had a similar email supposedly from LloydsTSB, and I have no account with them so obviously sent out at random. The originating site was a site with a .DE eg German server. Highly unlikely that LLoydsTSB would send out such an email and certainly not from Germany. Sent it to scams@lloydstsb and they confirmed it as a fake
 
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They already have their own system, they will only communicate through their own messaging system after you have securely logged in to your account. Most major companies such as banks, ebay, paypal etc will only communicate with customers this way - none of them use standard email for communicating with existing customers.
 
I use an excellent freeware program called Mailwasher: it only downloads email headers and their sender's name, before you open Outlook Express; you can then choose to "bounce" any offending emails, which will make the sender believe that your email address isn't "live"...
Download Mailwasher for free domestic use at www.mailwasher.net
 
Please don't bounce emails, it just confirms to the spammer that you have a live and active email account, depending on the way the spam is being sent.

Just don't bounce at all then you'll receive less spam long term

Ignore all spam is the best option
 
Hi Thisle (and some others!), Think a few on here need to re-read my posts, My Wife and I do not have an EGG account or card, we did not respond to the e-mail and spotted it as a scam and informed the bank concerned, the purpose of the post was to point out that this attempt to obtain our details was far more professional than the usual [--word removed--], As pointed out the e-mail was almost identical to the genuine EGG site, As for the frequency of such attempts at scamming people, this is the 1st time we have received anything that looked so "Right", hence posting here. Regards, Mike.
 
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Oh, come on, if you recieve an email fron a bank, asking for details or a security check, just delete it and don't think any more of it!


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Exactly my point. Mickshep, no offence intended. I agree, recently there seems to have been an upturn in the number of these emails and indeed the 'quality' of them has improved, but really folks have to treat all and every unsolicitated correspondance with absolute sceptisism.

The worrying thing is that for phishing to be so rife, people must be responding to it, otherwise the perpetrators wouldn't bother. I'd be interested to know how many people are falling for this scam.........
 
Far to many, and it suprises me how many keep posting phishing scams when the topic has been aired so many times on the forums, and the response to it. Delete the email
 
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Please don't bounce emails, it just confirms to the spammer that you have a live and active email account, depending on the way the spam is being sent.

Just don't bounce at all then you'll receive less spam long term

Ignore all spam is the best option

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this is what the sender recieves when I "bounce" an email:

The original message was received at Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:12 +0000
from localhost [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<johnandelsa@onetel.com>
(expanded from: <johnandelsa@onetel.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
mail.local: unknown name: johnandelsa
550 <johnandelsa@onetel.com>... User unknown

Would a spammer conclude from this that my address is active?
 
Yes Brendan, any Email purporting to be from a Bank doesn't get a second look. Some of the recent phishing I have had apparently from Internet companies like Ebay, Paypal or my ISP have been very very close to the genuine article, and needed a second look.
 
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