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Title: Another MS scam?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 21 March 2014, 10:21:21
Received an email in my outlook account pertaining to be from outlook telling me that parts of my account have been temporarily suspended due to some unusual activity, and that I need to verify it immediately...

It gives this link...

Link removed by Admin

Which shows NO reference to MS or outlook... Call me suspicious but my instinct is to report and bin it :-\

Any one else seen this recently  :-\
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: TheBoy on 21 March 2014, 10:32:41
Bin it.
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: TheBoy on 21 March 2014, 10:33:37
Link removed by me, as it falls right into the scammers hands. Plus boloxes up our search engine rankings ;)
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 21 March 2014, 10:37:25
Link removed by me, as it falls right into the scammers hands. Plus boloxes up our search engine rankings ;)
Sorry Dad :-[

Duly noted and binned :y
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Stemo on 21 March 2014, 10:39:48
It's just a common or garden piece of phishing.
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Rog on 21 March 2014, 15:33:55
It's just a common or garden piece of phishing.

I'm very partial to pan fried salmon if anyone caught some  :y

Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Bigron on 21 March 2014, 16:26:05
There are SO many of these scammers, asking for your personal details for verification.
Please be sure that no legitimate organisation will EVER ask you for any such details, and will always address you by name - "Dear Customer" is a dead give-away.

Ron.
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: CaptainZok on 21 March 2014, 16:32:53
There are SO many of these scammers, asking for your personal details for verification.
Please be sure that no legitimate organisation will EVER ask you for any such details, and will always address you by name - "Dear Customer" is a dead give-away.

Ron.
Shhhh I've been targetting Vamps with one of those via my uncle in Nigeria for years now.
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 21 March 2014, 16:46:16
Very much a scam, and this is obviously one in the form of an email whereas others come in the form of a cold call. Just delete, and with telephone calls just do what I do; tell them to fxxk off! :y
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: TheBoy on 21 March 2014, 22:05:32
Very much a scam, and this is obviously one in the form of an email whereas others come in the form of a cold call. Just delete, and with telephone calls just do what I do; tell them to fxxk off! :y
Surely an upstanding lady such as yourself would not say such things, and would tell them politely not to call back :P
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 22 March 2014, 00:48:41
Very much a scam, and this is obviously one in the form of an email whereas others come in the form of a cold call. Just delete, and with telephone calls just do what I do; tell them to fxxk off! :y
Surely an upstanding lady such as yourself would not say such things, and would tell them politely not to call back :P

 ;D ;D ;D not when it comes to nasty people trying to scam us all........I give it to them with both barrels and I don't care if it's not ladylike ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 22 March 2014, 00:55:55
So there!! :P
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: Vamps on 22 March 2014, 01:14:18
There are SO many of these scammers, asking for your personal details for verification.
Please be sure that no legitimate organisation will EVER ask you for any such details, and will always address you by name - "Dear Customer" is a dead give-away.

Ron.
Shhhh I've been targetting Vamps with one of those via my uncle in Nigeria for years now.

And I have been ignoring them for as many years, how people get sucked into those beggars belief, but they do..... ::) ::)

I regularly get one from pay pal saying my account has been suspended till I log in, and bt the same, always say my payment failed or was not made, to the point now that my bt bill is paid immediately and I keep the receipt......... :y :y
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: dbug on 22 March 2014, 01:24:28
Yep even get some from banks who I don't bank with saying my account is suspended - just use common sense and delete scam emails straight off your email server ;)
Title: Re: Another MS scam?
Post by: cd 2.2 on 22 March 2014, 04:41:49
Best response in the case of a phone call, just tell them you are going to get him/her asked for and leave the phone in a convenient place while continuing your daily business  :y