They must think I am daft!
- Thurston Garden
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They must think I am daft!
{Cr*ppy Halifax logo}
Dear valued Halifax ® Member ,
It has come to our attention that your account Billing Information records are out of date.
That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination.
Please update your records within 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records,
your account session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
Failure to update will result in cancellation of service,
Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
You must click the link below and enter your login information on the following page
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Now I am not even a H4lifax member, never mind a VALUED one lol. Is that the best they can do? Honestly the logo looked like it had been done with crayons...
Dear valued Halifax ® Member ,
It has come to our attention that your account Billing Information records are out of date.
That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination.
Please update your records within 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records,
your account session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
Failure to update will result in cancellation of service,
Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
You must click the link below and enter your login information on the following page
to confirm your Billing Information records...
Thank You
Click here to update and verify your online Billing
Now I am not even a H4lifax member, never mind a VALUED one lol. Is that the best they can do? Honestly the logo looked like it had been done with crayons...
Thurston Garden.
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Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
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Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
Sad though, some people do fall for it... and loose thousands.
Some one put aa link up for a website that mocks the scammers that do this... it was very funny... I can't remember what it was now though.... anyone???
Some one put aa link up for a website that mocks the scammers that do this... it was very funny... I can't remember what it was now though.... anyone???
Ann Pan
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some days you're the lamp-post"
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"Some days you're the dog,
some days you're the lamp-post"
My blog
My Tea Cosy Shop
Some photos
My eBay
- marshlander
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All the rich orphans whose trust funds can only be accessed if I send them money to help them escape their Country. They'll share their estate with me if I help.
The number of times I've won the lottery, Euromillions, Spanish lottery when I haven't even bought a ticket - all I have to do is give them my name address, dob, bank account details, oh and a paultry few thousand quid to pay for admin.
Then there's the part time jobs cashing cheques for foreign manufacturer's who can't get a uk bank account or clear uk cheques themselves; 10% commission!. All I have to do is provide name adress dob bank.......
All the B&B bookings I've refused - all I had to do was accept their cheque or credit card payment for £5000, take out the cost of their booking and my expenses and transfer the balance to their account so they could pay for hire cars, spending money.
With all these people offering me money for nothing I must like being hard up!
Seriously, it costs them spammers nothing to send these emails out and if only 1 in 1000 respond, they're quids in.
I've spend ages argueing with internet providers that they must be able to detect acounts sending out this stuff and zap them but got nowhere. In the end I've had to pay for email filtering but even that lets several through each day.
The number of times I've won the lottery, Euromillions, Spanish lottery when I haven't even bought a ticket - all I have to do is give them my name address, dob, bank account details, oh and a paultry few thousand quid to pay for admin.
Then there's the part time jobs cashing cheques for foreign manufacturer's who can't get a uk bank account or clear uk cheques themselves; 10% commission!. All I have to do is provide name adress dob bank.......
All the B&B bookings I've refused - all I had to do was accept their cheque or credit card payment for £5000, take out the cost of their booking and my expenses and transfer the balance to their account so they could pay for hire cars, spending money.
With all these people offering me money for nothing I must like being hard up!

Seriously, it costs them spammers nothing to send these emails out and if only 1 in 1000 respond, they're quids in.
I've spend ages argueing with internet providers that they must be able to detect acounts sending out this stuff and zap them but got nowhere. In the end I've had to pay for email filtering but even that lets several through each day.

Terri x
“I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.”
― Rebecca McKinsey
“I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.”
― Rebecca McKinsey
- frozenthunderbolt
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Hotamail accounts arnt bad and are free. had one 6 years and only just started to get spam. at a rate of 1 - 2 mails a week. which i duely report with the phishing scam button which updates the free spam filters.
Jeremy Daniel Meadows. (Jed).
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Those who walk in truth and love grow in honour and strength
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marshlander wrote:
I've spend ages argueing with internet providers that they must be able to detect acounts sending out this stuff and zap them but got nowhere. In the end I've had to pay for email filtering but even that lets several through each day.
Actually, that's harder than it seems. Any hacker worth their salt has programs to trick other servers into resending their email, some mailings get bounced around so many times it would take years to trace back to the original sender. Sort of like an email pinball game.
-Ellendra
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lol.. in november i was dumb enough to click on a link to a "neighbourhood comunity" i was invited to and then my brain must have ceased to function because i accepted membership... today i got a doument frm a money collection firm... that i should pay 90 euro.... I googeld the internet firm... and got a forum for people who fell for the trickery of this firm... irgnorin g it is the best.. now i only have to convince my mum of that XD
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- mrsflibble
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googlemail has excellent antispam features.
this is a shot of my spam folder. note how many epople are telling me to enlarge my penis.

I even get ones in japanese, arabic and hebrew!!!
this is a shot of my spam folder. note how many epople are telling me to enlarge my penis.

I even get ones in japanese, arabic and hebrew!!!
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
- Thurston Garden
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I have 3 different email accounts and use Thunderbird which also has an excellent Spam filter/folder. It was in there that my H4lifax email ended up. Chancers!
Thurston Garden.
http://www.thurstongarden.wordpress.com
Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
http://www.thurstongarden.wordpress.com
Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
- mrsflibble
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I can just see a natwest one on my picture there.... I don't have a natwest account. My paypal emails don't go to this email account so I know if one arrives it's not real, my virus update emails also go to another acount, my bank does have my email address, but I requested that they don't use it so any claiming to be from my bank would be deleted (funnily enough though I never get any).... and I NEVER use a link in an email from an unknown source.
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
- mrsflibble
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- mrsflibble
- A selfsufficientish Regular
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- Joined: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:21 pm
- Location: Essex, uk, clay soil, paved w.facing very enclosed garden w/ planters