On-Line Scam

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ctelfer38

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Just had an unsolicited email from an outfit calling themselves Virgin America thanking me for buying an air ticket costing $648 and saying it has been taken from my credit card. No such purchase has been made. Immediate call to my Bank confirms that no payment has been made. Cards changed instantly to secure against any possible 'raid'. Also advised not to respond in any way to the email but to delete. Bank says we are the fourth customer today to call. Thought I would pass the warning on to you good folks. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
And was there a link to click on in the email? I expect they wanted you to go to their website to sort out the mistake and would ask you to 'confirm your security details'.
 
There's loads at the moment: most have a .ZIP file attachment and encourage you to open the file and print the contents.

It's all scam spam. No doubt some people will fall for it.

Standard Operating Practice: if it's unsolicited; delete it. Don't feed sc/pammers after midnight.
 
Relax - they don't know anything about you or your credit cards. I have had half a dozen of these this week, from Air-Tran Airways, United Airlines, Air Alaska - boy, do I get around, apparently - all quoting the same fare. I've had others purportedly from Western Union about parcels and wires I have sent (presumably in my sleep). The spammers just want a response to their millions of random emails - if someone responds they can be hooked. Just delete anything like this and don't open any attachments.
 
Loads arrive here daily, best defence I've found so far is SpamFighter Free Here
You get the first 30 days free then it just puts a signature at the bottom of each mail to say you're using it, which is fine by me.
Works a treat and saves my inbox filling up with this garbage
 
I had the same email but AVG picked it up and moved the attachment into the Virus Vault and the email into the AVG folder.
 
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