Reports of frauds, deceptions and scams keep appearing, weekly even daily, on
major news channels and newspapers. Some of these frauds seem just too big and remote to be of immediate, direct relevance to our daily lives. But, we will eventually pay for the consequences and damages, in taxes, costs of goods and services, regulations, copy-cats etc.

I hope we can collect, in one thread, frauds and scams, reported or heard. We must become more aware and more educated to guard against frauds and scams
which impact upon the health, well being, and wealth of ourselves and our families.

Is obviously my turn atm.

I've just had a very convincing looking email and download from what looks to be a legit address for Virgin credit cards.

Having just spoken to them, there are apparently fraudulent emails circulating (no shit).

Dear Customer,

We are writing to inform you that your we are cancelling your paper and online
statements because of problems related to your online credit card service.

A short customer verification will be required of your immediately. Please
download the secure Virgin Money document attached in this mail and follow the
instructions in it. Failure to do so will result in a temporal suspension of
your online credit card service.

Kind Regards

The Virgin Credit Card Team

have been receiving very similar requests from PAYPAL, don't open the enclosure.

What is 'temporal suspension' anyway? :-)

Most people are aware of these bank scams,but of course you will always find someone that is gullable and will fall for it,hook,line and sinker.

If in doubt dont open any link other wise you will have your bank account emptied.

Bloody hell,can anyone lend us a fiver,as i have much less money in my bank account as i had 1st thought :o)

It was one of the more convincing emails - MBNA have recently taken over the Virgin cc business.

The email addresses looked authentic - which is unusual :- "Virgin Credit Cards virginmoney@MBNA.co.uk"



Still no idea what 'temporal suspension' is though - hanging around I guess!

your we??

It's obviously 'my turn' of late - another unopened email purporting to be from Wells Fargo advisors with a Russian email address - anyone like me to forward it?

Nooooooo thank you! :o)

Wow! Fantastic!! I've had a letter from Financial Services Dept., Audits & Claim Center telling me that I have won £167,900.00! It will only cost me £17 to complete my claim (add £3 if paying by cheque, oh and an extra £2 if I want the money quickly!) There will be much celebrating in my house tonight I can tell you! It is a good job the letter was delivered otherwise it would have gone back to "Private Locked Bag, Nadi Airport, Fiji"!

I've just received and email from support support@barclays.net notifying me of a successful money transfer with an attached zipped receipt - it looks very very real!?

Yes, there getting more realistic aren't they Skinny? I received one from Ebay yesterday in and old a/c that I hardly use.

Prompt reply from Barclays.

Sorry for this inconvenience. This is a SPAM message so do not take any action from it. If the message contained any attachments that you opened I would strongly suggest you run a virus scan on your computer

Thank you for bringing this to our attention

Just has a call from the 'telephone preference service' noting that I was receiving a large number of nuisance calls. They offered me a box to plug into the back of my phone which would block all nuisance calls from UK and abroad for just £1.80 per month for 3 years, then free lifetime service. The first guy was very fast talking and when he had explained everything he put me on to a senior manager with better English and less accent who asked me for either my credit card details or bank account details. At first was quite believable for a second or two, but told the 'senior manager' to get lost. H

A very wise decision!

I joined the TPS years ago, I never had a plug in box and I've never had to pay a penny - it did stop 99% of sales calls. I was getting several a night, now I probably get 3 or 4 a year at most.

I paid £50 for this screen cleaner. I think I may have fallen victim to a scam?

Me too!

My latest.

To view your latest generated estatement, proceed to internet banking section below


If you need more help in understanding your statement, visit our statement area at lloydsbank.com/yourstatement


Lloyds Internet Banking Log on


loyds Bank plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under registration number 119278. Authorisation can be checked on the Financial Services Register at www.fca.org.uk. Lloyds Bank plc is a member of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Financial Ombudsman Service. We subscribe to the Lending Code; copies of the Code can be obtained from www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk.

Lloyds Bank plc Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales No. 2065

I don't receive any spam.


It must be due to the bull mastiff which usually picks up the phone.


Have told her not to, but she doesn't listen to me.

Dear Customer

Please note that your iTunes ID happens to expire in less than 48 H.

It is imperative to conduct an audit of your information is present, or your ID will be destroyed.
Just click the link below and log in using your Apple ID and password.
Check now.

This is an automatically generated message. Thank you not to respond. If you need help, please visit the Apple Support site.

best regards,
The Apple Customer Support



Their email :-apples@poundhost.com

The 'check now' address :- http://webskilltechnology.com/cs.html