More spam/scam emails

[Serial_Apologist]

So it was you!

It couldn't possibly have come from anyone on this forum...

[RichardB]

spying on all our intimate moments

I hope someone somewhere has written back to say "I am a professional performer of pornography, and YOU owe ME $750 for unauthorised use of my, er, content.

[Serial_Apologist]

I hope someone somewhere has written back to say "I am a professional performer of pornography, and YOU owe ME $750 for unauthorised use of my, er, content.

[french frank]

I enjoyed this email from BT, just received:

"Dear user,

BT is aimed to protect your mailbox and make sure mail delivery to your inbox swift.
Recently we've updated our mail settings and extend all mail quota to create larger space for all users.
NB: It is important you complete this process to make sure you're an active member and to avoid deletion.
Therefore we have require all active address to use the link below to stay active and keep there mail.

COMPLETE-UPDATE[a link]

We appreciate your effort to keep us going
Thank you

REPLY SENT TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ARE NOT RECEIVED
IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CALL THE CALL CENTER"

[Petrushka]

I've recently had a surge of junk mail flooding my inbox. It's always gone to my junk box but most of this recent stuff is coming straight to my inbox.

I suspect that Facebook is implicated in this somehow but the good news is that the junk mail is very easy to spot (mostly telling me I've won a prize) so it all gets deleted but what a massive nuisance it all is!

[Old Grumpy]

I've recently had a surge of junk mail flooding my inbox. It's always gone to my junk box but most of this recent stuff is coming straight to my inbox.

I suspect that Facebook is implicated in this somehow but the good news is that the junk mail is very easy to spot (mostly telling me I've won a prize) so it all gets deleted but what a massive nuisance it all is!

A good reason for not using Facebook...

...the other one is the CEO.

[Anastasius]

I've recently had a surge of junk mail flooding my inbox. It's always gone to my junk box but most of this recent stuff is coming straight to my inbox.

I suspect that Facebook is implicated in this somehow but the good news is that the junk mail is very easy to spot (mostly telling me I've won a prize) so it all gets deleted but what a massive nuisance it all is!

If you use a Mac then I recommend SpamSieve which will pull spam into its own folder.

[french frank]

Just had one from BT Internet with the subject title: We Have Received 48 Complaints About Your E-Mail

This turns out to be a link to a final, final, final Last Warning renewal notice for my McAfee AV (which I don't have, in spite of the fact that I get daily reminders to renew - no matter what 'Rule' I add for direct removal from my email program.) Nothing for it, I suppose: I'm just going to have to renew it ...

NB BT Internet appears now to have relocated to Los Angeles, probably to avoid Trumpton tariffs.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just had one from BT Internet with the subject title: We Have Received 48 Complaints About Your E-Mail

This turns out to be a link to a final, final, final Last Warning renewal notice for my McAfee AV (which I don't have, in spite of the fact that I get daily reminders to renew - no matter what 'Rule' I add for direct removal from my email program.) Nothing for it, I suppose: I'm just going to have to renew it ...

NB BT Internet appears now to have relocated to Los Angeles, probably to avoid Trumpton tariffs.

I regularly receive the email reminder to "renew" my McAfee, the existence of which I have never in fact had. It usually comes around this time of the year; I was advised just to ignore it as a scam, which I do, so hopefully it will disappear from my inbox before too long.

[LMcD]

I enjoyed this email from BT, just received:

"Dear user,

BT is aimed to protect your mailbox and make sure mail delivery to your inbox swift.
Recently we've updated our mail settings and extend all mail quota to create larger space for all users.
NB: It is important you complete this process to make sure you're an active member and to avoid deletion.
Therefore we have require all active address to use the link below to stay active and keep there mail.

COMPLETE-UPDATE[a link]

We appreciate your effort to keep us going
Thank you

REPLY SENT TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ARE NOT RECEIVED
IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CALL THE CALL CENTER"

CENTER would be enough to make me suspicious, as I'm sure BT know how it's spelt in the UK.
After trying everything else to stop such an automatic renewal (of Kaspersky in my case) I wrote an old-fashioned letter to their London office, which did the trick. McAfee have several offices in the UK.

[Petrushka]

I got a flood of spam emails in the run up to Christmas, over 100 in December alone, many of them of the McAfee variety. They got deleted, obviously, without being opened. There were slightly less in January then they tailed off completely by mid-February.

I never open these things as there's always the possibility of accidentally clicking on something dodgy.

[french frank]

CENTER would be enough to make me suspicious, as I'm sure BT know how it's spelt in the UK.
After trying everything else to stop such an automatic renewal (of Kaspersky in my case) I wrote an old-fashioned letter to their London office, which did the trick. McAfee have several offices in the UK.

When I can be bothered I check the headers to see the address the mail came from. BT are (allegedly) now using no-reply@watsons.recommendyourespond.site and are based in IP address Los Angeles. McAfee are using return@supproo.vuabida.vn and are based in IP New York City (possibly Trump Tower, then), late of Vietnam .

[Serial_Apologist]

Blimey, I've now had a "reminder" from Norton!

[LMcD]

Blimey, I've now had a "reminder" from Norton!

Graham?

[burning dog]

Graham?

funnist scam call I had was from an Indian who opened with

"Are you Mr.B?"

"Yes"

"Hello, I'm Randy!"

I was told by a freind it was probably to claim my computer was down
as he had an "I'm James"