Another Scam

[Wildfuzz]

If you receive a letter from Korea Development bank of Japan stating you have a similar name to someone who had a lot of unclaimed money and was trying to gain access to your bank details to facilitate the "exchange".
Even though the banking institute referred to in the letter is genuine the letter itself is believed to done by a person who is not genuine as such it is believed to be a scam.
Never respond to these letters and never give out bank details or money.
Report to Actionfraud and or ring Norfolk police on 101.

[Jim]

Scams seem to be all around again right now.  Last year, we received the Nat West one which once again was a genuine letter with all the correct phone numbers, but the email addy was not. One simple call to their security team soon sorted that!

I'm sure Jonzo is aware and it may have been mentioned here elsewhere but Microsofts Tech department has rung us many times over the last week.  It is a scam and all you need to do to get rid of them is ask for their email addy so you can put your IT support company in touch with them....Guess what?  they hang up immediately  

 

[Guest]

The simple and universal scam advice I give  anyone is it just search Google for a few words in the suspect email.

Like "you have received a tax refund", which quickly shows if it is a scam:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=you+have+received+a+tax+refund&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=AMPVVoKNLuyS6QSnhqHwBQ

I monitor a number of email addresses for various URLs, and I get an average of 10 scams a week.

Banks, Building Societies, even the Inland Revenue, all get regularly "Phished" (imitated), with requests to login or "download this form", with dire threats of account suspension and the like.

[johnb]

I had an email from BA asking for loads of dosh for my boat toll. Apparently not a scam though.

We get the odd scam, but Strows number make me feel quite left out.

[JanetAnne]

4 minutes ago, johnb said:

I had an email from BA asking for loads of dosh for my boat toll.

Me too! If it's not a scam I suppose I have to pay it?

[johnb]

If you are going to pay yours, I will forward mine to my boat for payment, after all what's good for one is good for another. Let BA try and work that one out!

 

[JanetAnne]

Agreed. Go for it!

[Jim]

I like the ideas guys but I know we are going to have to pay up!  Lots of Herts folk here these days all prob wishing we were in Norfolk!