I received an email from  "Lloyds " this morning saying they had detected unusual activity
on my account and they had suspended it, plus a "Click here for details" section.
Never had an account with Lloyds so deleted it instantly.

Tens of thousands of such fly around email every day ...  My wife had two from PayPal this morning each warning her that her account was suspended, and each having a different source.  And seeing she doesn't have a PayPal account ...    She also regularly gets ones from "Apple" - I think her record is around 12 in a week !

The only times I consider anything like this may be valid, I log into the relevant account myself and ignore any links.  Anyone who follows links in an email asking them to check something / change a password / whatever is asking for trouble.

These days, such mails are sadly a fact of life; just live with it carefully ...

I've had quit a few my self in the past. My usual procedure is to open a second webpage and do a search for
scams + who ever the email is from. This will give you an 'address' to forward it to that the 'company' then
deals with.

The Lloyds one this morning you would forward to  emailscams@lloydsbanking.com and leave the rest to them.

Roger

PS. I never open them in case there is a 'virus' attached, you never know.

I regularly get spam from supposed banks I've never dealt with in my life so just delete them without opening.
Normal message is 'Suspicious activity on your account..........'

I had a couple from HMRC saying I have a tax rebate coming. Badly spelt and grammar all wrong, but used the HMRC web page layout graphics. One this morning supposedly coming from a mate who is stranded in Kiev. Phone and cash stolen, but still has his passport. Can I send him £2000 to pay hotel bills before he can leave the country. Funny, he never mentioned it when we were having a pint last night.

Quote from: Malc on June 20, 2014, 11:40:09 AM
One this morning supposedly coming from a mate who is stranded in Kiev. Phone and cash stolen, but still has his passport. Can I send him £2000 to pay hotel bills before he can leave the country. Funny, he never mentioned it when we were having a pint last night.

Quote from: Malc on June 20, 2014, 11:40:09 AM
I had a couple from HMRC saying I have a tax rebate coming. Badly spelt and grammar all wrong..........................

Are you sure it wasn't legit?

I have two regulars one from the us postal service telling me to download a label and take it to my nearest post office to collect a delivery , prohibitively expensive , nearest one probably in usaf base in Oxfordshire (a long way from Glasgow) the other a court summons telling me to download the detail from an attachment .
Both go directly to the bin

Quote from: Trainfish on June 20, 2014, 01:08:16 PM

Quote from: Malc on June 20, 2014, 11:40:09 AM
I had a couple from HMRC saying I have a tax rebate coming. Badly spelt and grammar all wrong..........................

Are you sure it wasn't legit?

It'll be a scam.

I've been getting them nearly everday and they come to an inbox on a Gmail account that I only opened a couple of months ago,so there's no way they would have my email address.
I started another Gmail account just so I could provide an email address when required where I thought that giving it would lead to spam emails,I only give my usual email address to friends now.

It's so easy to open a Gmail account and then just delete the whole account if the spam gets too much.

Allan

I got one yesterday regarding a large sum of money in Nigeria signed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, who just happens to have a gmail address.

It must be genuine 

Yep... as MikeDunn says, it's an unfortunate aspect of modern life. Vigilance and instant delete without opening required!

What annoys me are calls to my mobile. How do they get the number?! It even happened to me in the UK recently, with a different SIM card and phone number! 

I get loads of these - at least 3 each day (sometimes more). I think it's very common if you have a business website.
Just delete and don't open them.  No matter how tempting they may look.

got one when I checked my e-mails today, from Santander.

don't bank with them,

never have banked with them,

don't even like their adverts.

straight to deleted box, and then cleared deleted items.

Quote from: Bealman on June 21, 2014, 07:00:06 AM
What annoys me are calls to my mobile. How do they get the number?! It even happened to me in the UK recently, with a different SIM card and phone number! 

especially the ones telling you there is £ 2, 873.27p awaiting from your claim etc.

if you want to have fun phone them back and tell them to send the money by cheque, they have all the details of your 'claim' and your name and address haven't changed.

did it a couple of times to use up free credit before I lost it.