Warning to Tenerife Forum members about spam email scams!

chedder · 18th August 2008, 18:49

E mail this morning saying my booking on American Airlines was confirmed and that $600 was debited from my credit card, gave a number etc for me to print ticket. E mailed back on the address given, e mail came back could not deliver. Phoned my bank in UK and gave them details as I do not have a credit card. Bank checked my account and no money had been withdrawn. The bank has put a note on my account that this scam had been reported.
PLEASE IF THIS HAPPENS TO YOU DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY OF YOUR BANK OR CREDIT CARD DETAILS THIS IS A SCAM AND IT CAN CAUSE A VIRUS PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT REPLY DELETE DELETE DELETE

Chedder

lovethesun · 18th August 2008, 18:58

Thanks for the warning, There may have been a little itsy bitsy clue that it was spam if you don't have a credit card

les22 · 18th August 2008, 19:24

Get about 20 a day, just delete them.

chedder · 18th August 2008, 19:36

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Originally Posted by lovethesun

Thanks for the warning, There may have been a little itsy bitsy clue that it was spam if you don't have a credit card

Have other cards so I was a little bit worried.

Chedder

Licinius · 18th August 2008, 21:01

I get this email daily as well but the giveaway was the attachment is an .exe file.

lord_cheeseman · 18th August 2008, 22:05

If you don't know the person who sent it, then delete it. These e-mails rely on people responding and giving some details about themselves. As mentioned above anything .exe is a giveaway.

Vortex wake · 18th August 2008, 22:11

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Originally Posted by chedder

E mail this morning saying my booking on American Airlines was confirmed and that $600 was debited from my credit card, gave a number etc for me to print ticket. E mailed back on the address given, e mail came back could not deliver. Phoned my bank in UK and gave them details as I do not have a credit card. Bank checked my account and no money had been withdrawn. The bank has put a note on my account that this scam had been reported.
PLEASE IF THIS HAPPENS TO YOU DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY OF YOUR BANK OR CREDIT CARD DETAILS THIS IS A SCAM AND IT CAN CAUSE A VIRUS PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT REPLY DELETE DELETE DELETE

Chedder

Yes as said just delete - never reply and never click the remove from mail list tab either as this is a con too.

brainstormm666 · 19th August 2008, 01:55

also installing firefox will flag up some phishing scams that are around.

espacally the fake banking sites.

arona1 · 19th August 2008, 02:32

By the amount of crap emails I get I must have 300 bank accounts around the world, just waiting for the interest to pile up now

Licinius · 19th August 2008, 06:59

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Originally Posted by brainstormm666

also installing firefox will flag up some phishing scams that are around.

espacally the fake banking sites.

I find the new windows mail on vista to be very effective but these ones along with a fake fedex one still get through. They don't get past Avast though.