How to tell if an email is a phishing scam
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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Just spotted why.... I noticed a spelling error in my own text and then I noticed that the text I had pasted had been converted to this: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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"...spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam." I'm more bothered by bad spelling in forum posts. ;P Matt Gerrans
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: What gave away the phisherman? How about the fact that a high street bank would *never* send an e-mail asking for this information? :doh:
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"...spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam." I'm more bothered by bad spelling in forum posts. ;P Matt Gerrans
Matt Gerrans wrote: I'm more bothered by bad spelling in forum posts. You obviously have been ignoring my posts. But then my favorite joke is that in a bilingual region, I know only one language, and my English teachers would wish to dispute even that. :laugh: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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Only very very very rarely I actually will click on a message...these people are very good -- but usually 9 times out of 10 it goes to some site with an IP address in the URL bar instead of a domain name, so it's kind of obvious -- most genuine emails will take you to a site where the URL has a domain name -- but of course not even that is foolproof. Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
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Just spotted why.... I noticed a spelling error in my own text and then I noticed that the text I had pasted had been converted to this: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt
:rolleyes:
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: What gave away the phisherman? How about the fact that a high street bank would *never* send an e-mail asking for this information? :doh:
Yes, I know that. I was trying to make a joke about the bad spelling - but different programs interpreted the message source differently so that joke fell flat.
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Awfully complicated way to tell a fake... I use the more simple, tried and true: ain't no one ever legit gonna aks you for your info... ever. ever. ever ever ever ever. Done. Paul
Yes, I know that. My original intention was to make a joke about the bad spelling - but it seems that different applications interpreted the message source differently making that joke fall flat.
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I just got a phishing scam email asking me to verify the details of my Barclays account. But I realised it was a fake just in time... I was almost convinced for a moment... My mouse was hovering over the link.... poised to press the button.... But at the last moment I realised what I was about to do and stopped. What gave away the phisherman? I spotted a spelling error :doh:: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevr to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Bacrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod. Tsih is deno for yruo protcetion - becuase smoe of our memebrs no loregn heva aseccs to thrie emial aderdsses and we mtsu virefy it. To vyfire yuor eiaml aderdss and acsecs yruo bkna acuocnt.... :wtf: Now that was weird... I pasted the text in here and it comes out all correct. But in Thunderbird it shows up as: Dera Barclays Mmeber, Tsih emlia was snet by the Balcrays serevt to vreify yruo eamil adserds. You msut comtelpe tihs prcoess by cnikcilg on the lkni bwole and eretning in the slaml wnidow yuor Barcrlays Membreship nuebmr, passcoed and maromeble wrod.... Very odd - spoiled my joke about truely awful spelling in a phishing scam. :sigh:
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I had one of those last week. It was pretty good, but i dont have a barclays account so i clicked on it anyway to have a look. It looks like it goes to some dodgy url then redirects to what i am quite sure is the legit Barclays website while at the same time opening a pretty crappy window asking for account details and passcode. As it does open the legit website i am quite sure this one would have fooled a lot of people. I put some random Obscenities into each field and clicked submit. Jon
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Yes, I know that. My original intention was to make a joke about the bad spelling - but it seems that different applications interpreted the message source differently making that joke fall flat.
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Just notice that this was supposed to be a reply to Paul Oss, but it got placed in the wrong part of the discussion. :confused:
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