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.

It had a strange email address as well , i have dumped it , has it affected anyone's pc ?

Don't know Jimmy, maybe MAM's own by the look of things!

Any further update on this, MoneyAM Team?

Have the police been informed of the hack?

Still waiting for someone from MoneyAM to tell us what they got hold of apart from names and email addresses. Ordinary addresses? Phone numbers?

its clear they do not want to give an explanation in public.

Yes WOODIE - now a month of deafening silence since your post. MoneyAM are obviously not willing to come clean on this.

it's got to be something to do with the abuse of the site's 'User HTML facilities' at that time, IMHO. That's why the big deal to alter them and get them tightened up.

My fiver says it was 'Addo' what done it. :-)

Yes it was

:-)

Skinny,

Are you serious?

Hmmm?

I have a money am support email in my spam box , it says website security best practice , has anyone else got this ??? I have not opened it .

Its genuine.

Rather stupidly, I didn't have the 'MoneyAM Announcements' box ticked in the

My Account
EMAIL BULLETINS section.

I've just ticked it but am probably 'after time' and won't receive this 'website security best practice' e-mail from MoneyAM.
I would be most interested to read what it has to say.

Questions:
1. Are these messages stored on site anywhere? If so, where?
2. What did this last message say?

Dear MoneyAM user,

We thought we would send you a few ideas and some suggested account security and privacy best practices that we recommend for our users:

CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD

Never change your password by following a link in an email that you did not request, since those links might be compromised and redirect you to the wrong place.
You can change your password on the MoneyAM My Account section, once there use the Login Details tab to change your password.
If you don't remember your password, you can get instructions on how to reset it by clicking on the Forgotten Password? link on the Home page.
In order for passwords to be effective, you should aim to update your online account passwords every few months or at least once a quarter.
CREATING A STRONG PASSWORD

Variety - don't use the same password on all the sites you visit.
Don't use a word from the dictionary.
Length - select strong passwords that can't easily be guessed with 8 or more characters.
Think of a meaningful phrase, song or quote and turn it into a complex password using the first letter of each word.
Complexity - randomly add capital letters, punctuation or symbols.
Mix capital and lowercase letters.
Substitute numbers for letters that look similar (for example, substitute "0" for "o" or "3" for "E".
Never give your password to others or write it down.
DON'T BE A VICTIM OF EMAIL SCAMS

A popular scamming method with criminals is to send fake emails, pretending to be from a company you trust. They do this to access your personal information, such as your bank details, names and addresses. These emails usually include urgent payment requests and generally may include some of the following:

A link to update your payment information.
You may be threatened with consequences if you don't.
A link to take you to a false website.
A few other account security and privacy best practices to keep in mind are:

Sign out of your account after you use a publicly shared computer.
Keep your antivirus software up to date.
Don't put your email address, address or phone number in your MoneyAM Bulletin Board profile.
Only connect to people you know and trust.
NEW MONEYAM PASSWORD PROTOCOL

As part of our ongoing review of security we will shortly be asking our users to follow good password management practices. When you login to MoneyAM you will be asked to reset your password and we ask that your password has the following characteristics.

Must be at least eight characters in length.
Must include one upper case and one lower case letter
Must include one number.
For your security, we recommend that you don't reuse passwords associated with your email address or any other type of account. Additionally, if you enter your original password as your new password, you may trigger an error message. Create an entirely new password the next time you sign in.



This email has been sent to you by AJ Bell Media Limited as you have requested to receive information from
Shares magazine, MoneyAM, Stock Market Wire, other AJ Bell Media websites or have registered for one of our events. If you would like to stop receiving emails, you can unsubscribe here.

Cheers skinny .

My password of YouwonTguessSsmyPPassword4545++$everbecausei'mtoocleverforyou656777):*^%$))""!scammers

is a really secure one i'm using it for everything now including banks etc because no one will ever get it even hackers ,how clever am i .

What, all of it? Or just the '!scammers' bit?

Got a strange message on my PC, had a box come up in the middle of the screen and the background faded. It said my chrome browser had been compromised by a Trojan and I should ring a number in the US starting 203 to correct the fault. I could not get rid of this box by trying to close browser, so ran Norton scan which reported no threats. Fortunately the shutdown button worked as normal and I restarted and the PC worked as normal.

Any one else had this issue or something similar. I assume it was just a scam, but looked realistic. Thanks. H

On a visit to a friend's Facebook page, my eye was attracted to a box saying something about Melania Trump was filing for divorce against her husband, Donald.

As the box was a link and seeing how Donald had only just been elected as the new President just the day before, I clicked on it to read more.

I was immediately 'hijacked' by something similar to what you experienced, sutherlh1.

I couldn't shut the page down or move away from it. Aaaargh! The page was telling me to phone a number, pay a fee, etc, etc, etc. Well, I wasn't going to be doing any of that stuff, so here's what I did.

I hit Ctrl/Del to bring up the Task Manager to then use it to completely shut down the Chrome browser. Sorted!

Then I ran an AV Scan: Nothing to report.
I then cleaned the PC with CCleaner.
I then searched for Malware with ADW Cleaner and did another clean with what it found, which was nothing much, really.

Thanks Execline, I am currently running a full computer AV scan and will follow up with PC Cleaner and ADW cleaner which I currently haven't downloaded. My problem came up on a minor misspelling with a web address. I wasn't using chrome at the time. H

Careful what boxes you tick when you do the downloads.

There's generally a 'default situation' with downloads, where boxes are 'ticked already' for you and so, along with the download 'you DO WANT', you also get stuff downloaded and/or installed, that you DON'T REALLY WANT.