Barclays - confirmation of your personal details

**Troll** · 5 January 2007, 10:10

Originally posted by wendigo100

I've been receiving this spam / phishing expedition every day for weeks now. How come it hasn't been closed down yet, and the perpetrators banged to rights?

Lots of computers in Nigeria/Russia etc

**DimPrawn** · 5 January 2007, 10:27

I get every bank several times a day. Nationwide, Barclays, HSBC, Egg, you name it.

No one cares. I've contacted the banks and they don't give a toss. Same for the fraud office. Not interested.

**AlfredJPruffock** · 5 January 2007, 10:31

Most of this traffic is spam generated from Botnets - ie unsuspecting users whose PC machines have been infected with Malware and Spam Engines - there are various ways in which this type of Spam can be eliminated - but if you want to know how then Im afraid I will have to charge you a fiver.

PS Wendigo - do you receive these spams in your private or work email account ?

PPS On average Spam constitutes 60 per cent of companies inbound email traffic

**el duder** · 5 January 2007, 10:34

Originally posted by wendigo100

I've been receiving this spam / phishing expedition every day for weeks now. How come it hasn't been closed down yet, and the perpetrators banged to rights?

same same!

**wendigo100** · 5 January 2007, 10:46

Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock

PS Wendigo - do you receive these spams in your private or work email account ?

Private.

I get over 200 spams a day now, of which BT Yahoo only manage to intercept half of them, despite me marking all spam in my inbox.

**Captain Jack** · 5 January 2007, 10:49

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

**Sockpuppet** · 5 January 2007, 10:50

I just run my own mail server and spamassassin makes short work of most spams with some good rules set up.

**To BI or not to BI?** · 5 January 2007, 10:50

Originally posted by Captain Jack

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

Which, considering that we are talking about software, would be nothing, so you are overpaying $30 pa for the stuff

(BI in pedantic mode)

**wendigo100** · 5 January 2007, 10:52

Originally posted by Captain Jack

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

Can it be piggy-backed onto my BT Yahoo account?

Barclays - confirmation of your personal details