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Phishing emails?

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morf67
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on ‎24-01-2022 07:54

 
Hi, I keep getting emails ref mail version being outdated, most recent pasted below, can anyone help, are VM closing down emails or is this a scam? Email address used most days so it’s not dormant,
thanks.

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coenoby
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on ‎24-01-2022 17:27

@morf67 wrote:
 
 are VM closing down emails or is this a scam? E

It's definitely 100% a scam.

Virgin Media have advised about it here https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Latest-Phishing-News-24-01-2022 

However, scam emails such as this are really common so the next one you get may be worded slightly differently.

There is no need to report this one because VM are already aware of it and will have blocked it by now but if you do get any similar ones you can forward them to VM using phishing@virginmedia.com.

However, in my view a better option in these cases is to forward any possible phishing emails to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) via:    report@phishing.gov.uk   

That will go to The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) who will analyse the suspect email and any websites it links to and get those links closed down to prevent unwary victims from giving the scammers their passwords or other confidential details. See here for more information https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-phishing 

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coenoby
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on ‎24-01-2022 17:27

@morf67 wrote:
 
 are VM closing down emails or is this a scam? E

It's definitely 100% a scam.

Virgin Media have advised about it here https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Latest-Phishing-News-24-01-2022 

However, scam emails such as this are really common so the next one you get may be worded slightly differently.

There is no need to report this one because VM are already aware of it and will have blocked it by now but if you do get any similar ones you can forward them to VM using phishing@virginmedia.com.

However, in my view a better option in these cases is to forward any possible phishing emails to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) via:    report@phishing.gov.uk   

That will go to The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) who will analyse the suspect email and any websites it links to and get those links closed down to prevent unwary victims from giving the scammers their passwords or other confidential details. See here for more information https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-phishing 

Coenoby

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