I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
18-09-2006, 10:39
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I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
Whom ever you are give it a rest.Every third email appears to be a variation on the one before.I wasn't fooled the first time and I'm not fooled by the last one.In my last inbox check I could have sent 30 separate emails of yours to Barclays as examples.
So if I'm not fooled who the hell is?Who is it that responds with such alacrity that you keep sending the obviously fake emails out WHEN ANYONE WITH ANY COMMON SENSE KNOWS THAT ANY BANK WILL NOT SEND OUT SUCH EMAILS and will notify any changes by post. 
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18-09-2006, 10:41
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
You mean you havent E-mailed them back with your pin number and bank addresses and invited them to come and stay at your home ?
How rude to not be so willing to help these poor people 
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18-09-2006, 11:01
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
if i'm really bored, i fill out those forms with gibberish...if enough people do it, it won;t be worth their while weeding out all th junk.
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18-09-2006, 12:36
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Duh !
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by bmxbandit
if i'm really bored, i fill out those forms with gibberish...if enough people do it, it won;t be worth their while weeding out all th junk.
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Trouble is replying to these emails lets the senders know it is a 'live' address and will bombard it with even more sh*t. !!!
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18-09-2006, 12:45
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
I seem to be getting STUPID amounts of spam that just contain links at the moment.
These individuals are LOSERS.
Get a :
a) Life
b) Women
c) Job
d) All of the above.
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18-09-2006, 13:24
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by grandmaster
I seem to be getting STUPID amounts of spam that just contain links at the moment.
These individuals are LOSERS.
Get a :
a) Life
b) Women
c) Job
d) All of the above.
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These individuals may well be losers, but they only need one or two people to fall for the scam to make an awful lot of money.
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18-09-2006, 13:29
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by basa
Trouble is replying to these emails lets the senders know it is a 'live' address and will bombard it with even more sh*t. !!!
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You don't even need to reply to an email, for them to know they have a "live" address. These people are very sneaky nowadays, they use web beacons, and lazy html to verify they have a live address.
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18-09-2006, 13:36
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
So if I'm not fooled who the hell is?Who is it that responds with such alacrity that you keep sending the obviously fake emails out WHEN ANYONE WITH ANY COMMON SENSE KNOWS THAT ANY BANK WILL NOT SEND OUT SUCH EMAILS and will notify any changes by post. |
The operative words here being COMMON SENSE which alas is something all too lacking in many people
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18-09-2006, 13:41
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Duh !
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by jem
The operative words here being COMMON SENSE which alas is something all too lacking in many people
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Evidenced by the number of peoples BB enabled PCs I clean up with no AV or Firewall or at least years out of date AVs.
None of them even know what malware, trojans or virii are ?? 
I wonder if these same people know where to put the oil and water in their cars ? 
Still, makes me a few bob.
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18-09-2006, 13:46
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
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Originally Posted by basa
Trouble is replying to these emails lets the senders know it is a 'live' address and will bombard it with even more sh*t. !!!
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no need, just follow a url given in the spam (best if it doesn't have a hash in the url to identify you) and corrupt their dodgy databases 
(reading emails as plain text helps too - there's still no need for html email)
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18-09-2006, 14:05
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Re: I've got those Barclays Phishing email Blues....
I keep getting them also, some I delete some I fill in with rubbish 
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