Fake Email Alert

[Naughty Nigel]

Watch out for emails purporting to come from Microsoft's 'Office365 Technical Team' reporting 'unusual activity on your Office 365 email account'.

As is usual with these things there is a Verify link which doesn't go to Microsoft, and which I wouldn't touch with a bargepole!

The email is purportedly sent from 'Technical Team <[email protected]>'* and contains dodgy grammar, which is always a giveaway.

Stay safe.


*Note the period in Microsoft.

[jdal]

Re: Fake Email Alert

I read somewhere that dodgy grammar on these types of emails was deliberate so that it filtered out people with any kind of savvy, so as not to waste the barstewards time.

[Ricoh]

Re: Fake Email Alert

Also doing the rounds are fake emails from PayPal informing the recipient of unauthorised account activity etc, with a hyperlink provided to help (!!) log-in to check recent activity.

[Ross the fiddler]

Re: Fake Email Alert

Watch out for emails purporting to come from Microsoft's 'Office365 Technical Team' reporting 'unusual activity on your Office 365 email account'.

As is usual with these things there is a Verify link which doesn't go to Microsoft, and which I wouldn't touch with a bargepole!

The email is purportedly sent from 'Technical Team <[email protected]>'* and contains dodgy grammar, which is always a giveaway.

Stay safe.


*Note the period in Microsoft.

Do a block of the sender & it shows you the real dodgy address.

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Fake Email Alert

I read somewhere that dodgy grammar on these types of emails was deliberate so that it filtered out people with any kind of savvy, so as not to waste the barstewards time.

I am not sure if it is quite as deliberate as that.

I always suspected that they were sent from overseas by people with a poor command of Engrish. But they certainly don't lack skill when it comes to cribbing identities from big corporates.

On a different note, I see the recent cyber attack on the NHS was allegedly launched from North Korea, which is hardly a surprise, but I fail to see what they would have achieved from it.

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Fake Email Alert

I cannot believe that people are still falling for these scams.

I received a letter informing me that a distant relative had died in Africa, and that I was due to inherit $squillions. I was also given the address of a Lawyer who was dealing with the estate. The Lawyer's name was clearly fictitious, but the address was that of NatWest Bank in Barnard Castle, which I'm sure closed some years ago and is now a cafeteria.

[Harold Gough]

Re: Fake Email Alert

Also doing the rounds are fake emails from PayPal informing the recipient of unauthorised account activity etc, with a hyperlink provided to help (!!) log-in to check recent activity.

I had one recently.

I forward those to [email protected]

Harold

[IainMacD]

Re: Fake Email Alert

I read somewhere that dodgy grammar on these types of emails was deliberate so that it filtered out people with any kind of savvy, so as not to waste the barstewards time.

I had one, supposedly from PayPal, that opened "Dear costumer..."; at least it made me smile before I hit the delete button.

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Fake Email Alert

I had one, supposedly from PayPal, that opened "Dear costumer..."; at least it made me smile before I hit the delete button.

[RogerMac]

Re: Fake Email Alert

..and apart from anything else anyone complying could go to jail for money laundering