hi folks
Received email allegedly from Amazon stating I was entitled to a refund of just over £66 , ask you to verify contact details, it contains personal stuff like name, contact number etc , do not hit verify account button, it apparently comes from a hotmail account, I'm  no longer in UK & not used Amazon for over two & half years . Be careful folks

Had one of those last year, along with one from "pay pal", the First National Bank in the USA, HMRC, and numerous other banks claiming I had to log onto my account to clarify something/claim a refund. I just bin them and don't click on any links. I must be unfortunate, I haven't had one claiming to be from the son of a revolutionary who can't get his fortune out of Nigeria.

I'll forward some of mine then, Malc

But you don't live in Nigeria do you?

Quote from: Trainfish on March 25, 2015, 12:48:52 PM
But you don't live in Nigeria do you?

Not this week

I don't just delete them.  I find out if it's purportedly from a company then forward them every single E-Mail as they usually have a phishing e-mail address reporting which helps them block these people (never ending task).  Then I put them into spam filter.

...I was a bit jealous a few years ago that I hadn't ever had any junk E-Mails from girls abroad wanting to marry me like the other guys had.  One day at work on the boat I got one!  Not on my own computer, I called my Offshore Manager down to my office and said "look -someone other than my Mum loves me!" and we clicked on the link -to pics of a beautiful girl.  We debated how much she was worth (green card or not and one of our guys fell for this kind of scam before), and I was just about to delete when he yelled "save the pics at least first for goodness sake!".  Too late!

As I'm job hunting this past few months (in engineering), I often get requests to send prospective info including passport info, d.o.b. bank details. etc.  No thanks.

Rich