Text Spam

[Hylander]

Be warned I have just received a text message purporting to be from Barclays Bank telling me that 900 GBP has been taken out of my account and sent to British Telecom.  I did not phone any of the so called Barclays Fraud numbers but phoned Barclays through my old phone banking system.   Barclays  Fraud Office confirmed that none of the numbers had anything whatsoever to do with Barclays.   She took down all of the message and the details therein to pass to their security.

 

Now if an elderly person were to receive such a text they would immediately (well my old Mum would have) rung the numbers given.   These are crooks.   They are so real you would think it was genuine.

 

 

[SANTED]

this is a copy of an email I got from "Barclays".Very crude attempt but just shows what the scammers will try on.I've deleted the "link" of course

barclays.docx

Edited January 17, 2016 by SANTED

[ranworthbreeze]

The best thing to do with theses emails or text's is to delete them, make sure your antivirus and spam filters are up to date.

Regards

Alan

[BuffaloBill]

Before deleting them, add them to your blocked senders list!!

Then delete it.

[Siddy]

I've had my email address for years and got the odd mail into the spam folder but I signed up to ITV hub and since then started getting at least 5-6 each day with the start of my email in it.

Saying this I got a mail from a company I use on the banks pc on Friday and it wasn't what it seemed and a 1 hr later a message came up saying my pc is to be shut down by IT dept. oh dear wonder when my account will be unlocked my pc has left my desk.