Following 'boothy99''s advice I forwarded a number of the recent spams to phishing.gov. Thought nothing more of it until half an hour later when none of our devices could access email - our email account/password was not recognised.
Phoned Virgin Media's not very customer friendly customer services and explained the lack of email - we were advised to reset our password. There was no explanation as to why we had been locked out - indeed the adviser didn't acknowledge we had been!
The reset worked. Then some hours later we got an email from Virgin Media saying "You have received this email as one or more of your Virgin Media mailboxes has recently been locked due to suspicious activity being detected." It appears to me that the only 'suspicious activity' was our having the temerity to forward a small selection of the rubbish for action by phishing.gov, which had arrived in the first place courtesy Virgin Media.
Is it fair to suggest that the Virgin Media 'system' is more concerned about our activity than the increasing activity of the rat-bags out there?
