topic Re: Phishing emails in Email

Phishing emails

NorfolkLad — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:48:48 GMT

I am receiving a lot of bogus emails on my tiscali email addresses. There can be up to 10 or 12 a day and it's becoming tedious. They are very poor emails (bad spelling etc) offering special offers or prizes for competitions that I have never entered. Am I right in thinking these are phishing emails and what do I do to stop them? Is the TalkTalk phishing reporting email address still active?

Thanks

Re: Phishing emails

Gliwmaeden2 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:59:15 GMT

Do report them; sometimes attaching the email to send it to the phishing report sites works better than forwarding.

Always make sure you have marked it as Spam in your email account and delete it. Run regular antivirus / anti malware checks, @NorfolkLad.

Our addresses do get harvested (often nothing to do with our provider, but attacks from years back, and across the board, not just email addresses from ISPs but also Hotmail, Yahoo etc).

Periodically change your password and never repeat the same password on another site.

Re: Phishing emails

fr8ys — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:00:24 GMT

I understand this is actively being looked at.

TalkTalk have requested that spam mail be reported to them. The process though has changed.
How to do this can be found here
https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Phishing-emails-amp-everything-you-need-to-know/ta-p/3002256.
Thank you.

Re: Phishing emails

NorfolkLad — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:37:29 GMT

I have now reported just over 100 spam/phishing emails since 29th December both by emailing the files and marking them as spam in my TalkTalk webmail account. They don't seem to be reducing in number yet!

Re: Phishing emails

NorfolkLad — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:54:00 GMT

Hi Gliwmaeden2.

Thanks for the reply.

Am I right in thinking that changing the password on my email accounts, won't stop unwanted, incoming mail?

NorfolkLad.

Re: Phishing emails

Gliwmaeden2 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 20:05:00 GMT

It won't stop it coming in, but it means you are keeping control of your address book etc, and we are advised to do this.

I end up changing my various email addresses' passwords about once a year, if they get much of this.

My Hotmail account is the one that is most afflicted by spam / scams etc but religiously sending it to Spam and deleting it has reduced it from 10 - 20 a day to 3 or 4.

Sometimes the scammers seem to take time off at weekends, holidays, actually Black Friday etc!

Probably looking after their "work:life balance" at those times if they do this on such an industrial scale. 😪

Definitely worth just repeating the "send to spam" and delete them and the rogues should gradually leave you in peace.