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"email spam"

I have been getting a lot of spam from "santander" / "northern rock" / "alliance & leicester" asking me to resolve issues on my account etc. obviously spam.phish as I don't have accounts with same. I only mention it because it has increased in the last few days. I understand it's impossible to cut out all these bleeping bleepers but I wanted to see how others were faring in this respect. I am forwarding to abuse, but I'm guessing they're subtly changing something to enable them to slip through the net again and again.

I am using thunderbird as my email client with the standard adaptive junk mail filters. Can anyone suggest a plug-in that might improve this

also freeola - do you block email by ip address when you receive an abuse report email?

I've had 2 this morning of the "Unclaimed Tax Refund Message" genre

quite bad grammar and spelling and orig. domain actually seems to be NZ

just in case anyone else out there thinks they're due money from HMRC - beware!

webcity1 wrote:
just a friendly warning....

Thanks webcity1 for that info. On back tracking, especially the 'oh so concerned Santander internet security emails' they originate from Chile, where Santander do operate (and Brazil, by the way) :¬)

ok to help limit those threads, I am posting here again. I have just received an email from "[email protected]" saying about a parcel being returned. In the detailed headers view I could see it originated from

The thing about the "parcel returned" spoof is I guess you don't necessarily know if there is an exciting parcel waiting for you, and of course the summary header showed fedex.com which is a genuine fedex domain. TRICKSY!

just a friendly warning....

Banking again Hmmm ...

Santander and Halifax seem to have both detected an awful lot of unauthorised activity on my accounts during the last week ... it's so comforting that these large institutions are so concerned about even their 'non-existent' customers .... just wish other banks would show such concern haha :¬D

Hmmm... wrote:
That's right we are trying to limit new threads around here! :�P

Fine, point taken ... won't bother again ;�)

Dragonlance wrote:
It was a 'passing' comment two days ago ... not really worth creating a new thread ;¬P


That's right we are trying to limit new threads around here! :�P

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Hmmm... wrote:

@DL - always best to start a new thread for unrelated items :¬P
FYI ...My Freeola email seems to be working fine.

It was a 'passing' comment two days ago ... not really worth creating a new thread ;¬P

Hmmm... wrote:
...Have you looked at the originating IP addresses, they are quite likely to be different/spoofed?


The spam situation is still fine for me, but as promised I've been looking out for banking/Santander emails.


I had a Santander phishing attempt yesterday and found (looking at the email headers) that it originated from Japan. I've just had one today and this one had a German IP.

A quick search shows both the originating IPs check out as having a 'clean' reputation. So as I previously mentioned this type of spam can be hard to block via IP address alone.


[s]Hmmm...[/s]


@DL - always best to start a new thread for unrelated items :¬P
FYI ...My Freeola email seems to be working fine.

Is email retrieval slow tonight or is it just me?

Not 'snailmail' more like 'slugmail' at the moment and ... yes, I did ponder whether a slug was slower than a snail :¬)

Just the usual few here ... my missing login information for questionable sites but none related to the banking establishments mentioned.