I recently received an email telling me that I need to take £500 to the post office to pay for my euros. I was a bit baffled as i had not ordered any currency.
I looked at the email address and saw it was my old Hotmail address. SCAM jumped into my mind so I dug deep and checked the header info on the e-mail and it all looked genuine. On the phone to a number for the company, I had off the net not the one I'm the email, think premium rate.
I looked at the email address and saw it was my old Hotmail address. SCAM jumped into my mind so I dug deep and checked the header info on the e-mail and it all looked genuine. On the phone to a number for the company, I had off the net not the one I'm the email, think premium rate.
Anyway it turns out that the email address should have had an underscore on not a dot. Not a scam but a mistake but beware I would not have thought that they would allow to addresses so alike. Then I thought this was nearly 20 years old not so security conscious then.
So beware old email addresses can be dangerous
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