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Latest Phishing News 23/04/2024

Latest Phishing News 23/04/2024 We have been informed about phishing emails that contains the content copied below. They were NOT sent by Virgin Media and should not be responded to. Do NOT visit the link included in the mails or response   Email 1 V...

Int-Sec by Moderator
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Latest Phishing News 22/04/2024

Latest Phishing News 22/04/2024 We have been informed about phishing emails that contains the content copied below. They were NOT sent by Virgin Media and should not be responded to. Do NOT visit the link included in the mails or response   Email 1 D...

Int-Sec by Moderator
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Child safe mode automatically enabled and cannot be disabled

Hi, I’ve come back from holiday to find (eventually) child safe mode has been enabled. My account shows it as off already; I tried turning child safe on & off, but this gets an error ‘unable to save change’. I’ve tried both the website and the app, &...

sjh64 by Joining in
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Latest Phishing News 25/09/2023

Latest Phishing News 25/09/2023 We have been informed about phishing emails that contains the content copied below. They were NOT sent by Virgin Media and should not be responded to. Do NOT visit the link included in the mails or response   Email 1 V...

Int-Sec by Moderator
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Smishing?

Hi, the other day I got a text which looks very suspicious as it came from a mobile number and has numerous spelling errors and broken grammar. I didn't reply, but please let me know whether to report it to my network.  Hi <my name> it's abid from vi...

the_jez by On our wavelength
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Do VM filter RFC 1918 IP addresses from DNS query results?

I'm debugging a DNS problem I see on my parents' internet connection which is a residential Virgin Media connection.I find that when I query the DNS for a record that I expect will include an RFC 1918 address in its results then the query times out. ...

yrro by Tuning in
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Latest Phishing News 22/09/2023

Latest Phishing News 22/09/2023 We have been informed about phishing emails that contains the content copied below. They were NOT sent by Virgin Media and should not be responded to. Do NOT visit the link included in the mails or response Email 1 Vir...

Int-Sec by Moderator
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Changeover calls genuine?

I keep getting phone calls about the changeover from a foreign speaking lady. I have already been notified by email that change over will be November. are these phone calls genuine as I don’t continue the call as I am worried about being scammed     ...

Child safe won’t click on

Hello I’m trying to activate the child save mode to block access to porn sites but it won’t click on it keeps saying the settings weren’t saved. Can you help please. Thank you

Alec99 by Joining in
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Adaptor for phone text

I’ve received this text which on doing a search I believe is not a scam (which I at first thought) but my next question is if it is genuine do I really need the adapter? I don’t have a home phone connected… I replied ‘CALLBACK’ but nothing happened T...

nancyp by Tuning in
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