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ALF28
Super solver
10 months ago
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SPAM EMAILS

Spam Emails have started again from fikigadgets, frikicars,enjoyfamily, travelwop to my ntlworld.com email. These may be fake? , although the companies mentioned  do appear to have websites. These ...
  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    10 months ago

    Of course, sorry had a senior moment there.  My NTL mailboxes were from my "closed" account and were still going long, long after the 90 days.  I did return with the newer system of a 3rd party email, but have since left again.  I stopped using my old NTL mailboxes from VM a few years before I left the first time.

    Apologies for the misinformation !

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ALF28
Super solver
10 months ago

I have tried to delete/remove my primary VM email which is ntlworld.com at least 3 times, both via the forum and by the 150 telephone line and refused each time saying it is not possible to do that, only secondary emails can be removed as there is an option to do that, I have removed my secondary emails.

Only if you cease to be a customer will VM allow deletion of a primary email address, unless the rules have changed recently?. I do now login to VM using am alternative email address for the last few years.

If it can be removed, please advise how you did achieve that and how long ago.

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Adduxi
Very Insightful Person
10 months ago

Of course, sorry had a senior moment there.  My NTL mailboxes were from my "closed" account and were still going long, long after the 90 days.  I did return with the newer system of a 3rd party email, but have since left again.  I stopped using my old NTL mailboxes from VM a few years before I left the first time.

Apologies for the misinformation !

  • ALF28's avatar
    ALF28
    Super solver
    10 months ago

    Thanks for the clarification, I have senior moments also.

    I have found a good web site that can be used to easily check if a company website is trustworthy and found most of the companies in some spam emails are discontinued websites of low trust rating, and used for sending spam emails that may be phishing and after bank details etc.

    see-

    ScamAdviser.com | Check a website for risk | Check if fraudulent | Website trust reviews |Check website is fake or a scam

    This is a quick method to verify the  websites, but wise not to click on any links  in spam emails because  they may just be fake websites, so always use actual websites rather than clicking on links in emails.

    • ALF28's avatar
      ALF28
      Super solver
      9 months ago

      I did some checks on spam emails and one good way is to see if the company's sending the spam  emails are listed in companies house, I receive spam claiming to be from companies based in London, but they do not exist so are fake companies. As the IP address indicates the source is  in Spain I also looked for the companies there but they do not seem to be listed.

      The emails are often tagged as spam emails. So it is  wise to ignore these unknown unsolicited emails and not provide them with any bank/card details as they are not genuine companies, and only shop via real genuine trusted websites regularly used. They may link to fake websites.

      • ALF28's avatar
        ALF28
        Super solver
        8 months ago

        Update-

        Spam emails to my VM email are approx 10 per day, most to get tagged as spam but some are not.

        They mainly originate from Spain and repeat the same service every day such as loans, casino, solar panels, dating etc. As they are so frequent and also during night time, they are probably automated robot emails.

        I few unusual emails relate to antivirus and use words such as danger and identity theft and originate from France and not tagged as spam. They have links to click on in the email to unknown websites which may lead to fraud or computer virus.

        The sender name and address changes each time  so the sender could be anyone.

        Good job I no longer use this email, as it gets so much unsolicited spam email of unknown origin.

        The only way to get rid of this ntlworld.com primary email is to change provider?

        I do get spam on other emails such as Yahoo so the spam/scam  email problem is is world wide, and also my gmail has been used for identity fraud attempts  several times, so email is never very secure or safe unless you check each email.