Spam / Phishing from PN
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Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
on 21-03-2018 6:35 PM - last edited on 21-03-2018 6:51 PM by Strat
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Have also received this bogus email.
See attached screenshot (recipient's name obscured by me).
Moderator's note by Dick (Strat): Personal information (email address) removed from a public forum.
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
21-03-2018 7:47 PM
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Have received 2 subsequent phishing emails. The latest with an address of customerservice@rice.edu Have forwarded them up to the abuse@plus.net address. I hope they won't be rejected as my earlier submission was. Any idea why PlusNet customers are being targeted so heavily today?
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
21-03-2018 7:49 PM
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All my emails to abuse@plus.net rejected.
Scam Email?
22-03-2018 11:25 AM
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Received an email from: supportplus@axa-insurance.co.uk stating:
This is a notification regarding your last month invoice. It looks like you missed a payment. Don't worry, you can pay safely and securely online. Please note: this service will suspended in 48hours after receiving this message in case the payment is not done.
Is this you? I am presuming it isn't.
Fotoman
Re: Scam Email?
22-03-2018 11:38 AM
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Re: Scam Email?
22-03-2018 11:40 AM
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@hensteeth - WOW You're a rare occurrence around here!
Re: Scam Email?
22-03-2018 12:05 PM
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Just got 2 of these. Fortunately I am one of those people who keep close check on money, so had all my details, dates, payments etc. What really alerted me we received 2 emails, one to what Plus Net has as our contact, and a second one which is just my personal email. Anyway we don't owe anything, but I can see how some people can still be so gullible, and follow through to payment. I did ring Plus Net to double check the account was clear, just in case, and mentioned to them about other emails I had reported regarding messages to say Plus Net were holding a suspicious email, and to click on a link to get the email. There were a few of those, and now this, reported these too, is anyone interested at Plus Net? I just ask because overall we get a few of these sort of emails from a bogus Plus Net, and as a company I would be interested why I was being targeted, and is it that easy for hackers to access Plus Net subscriber emails? I don't have a great understanding of technology, but wouldn't you be a little curious if you were running the company?
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
22-03-2018 12:30 PM
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Moderator's note:
Threads merged.
Forum Moderator and Customer
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He who feared he would not succeed sat still
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
22-03-2018 12:34 PM - edited 22-03-2018 12:35 PM
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I've also just received one. Have forwarded to abuse@plus.net.
The thing which marginally concerns me is whether there may have been a data breach at Axa, as it looks like a few people have had an email purporting to come from there. If they found email addresses, it would be easy then to target anyone with a *.plus.com email address with a message about plusnet.
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
22-03-2018 12:37 PM
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Oh, my email to abuse@plus.net bounced back
Final-recipient: rfc822; abuse@plus.net
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.5.0 550 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: message refused
Last-attempt-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:31:45 +0000
Re: Spam / Phishing from PN
22-03-2018 12:46 PM - edited 22-03-2018 12:55 PM
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Hi PN, can/will you do something about abuse@plus.net not accepting these messages please? It makes that email address completely useless if it won't accept these suspect mails
I was v. lucky in getting mine looked at as 'Darkfire' gave me an email that *would* accept it.
Best,
Ray.
Watch out for email phishing scams supposedly from plusnet
22-03-2018 1:20 PM
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I've just received this email below at a few of my plusnet email alias addresses (correct addresses).
The senders email is "Plus.net Service <supportplus@axa-insurance.co.uk>"
and the link included is "https://vanillagroup.in/plusnet.php"
The source includes this
Received: from axa-insurance.co.uk ([81.174.162.4]) by smtp with ESMTP id yzrneAQ4gy3jiyzrpeXNSf; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:02:54 +0000
Obviously a phishing scam. It seems there is no other way to report them.
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Dear xxxx@xxxxx.plus.com ,
This is a notification regarding your last month invoice. It looks like you missed a payment.
Don't worry, you can pay safely and securely online.
Please note: this service will suspended in 48hours after receiving this message in case the payment is not done.
To update your Plusnet Mobile details, please go to your mobile account .
© Plusnet plc All Rights Reserved. E&OE
Re: Watch out for email phishing scams supposedly from plusnet
22-03-2018 1:47 PM
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It seems this has been reported before and the answer is to forward the offending emails to " abuse@plus.net "
This I have now done.
Re:Spam / Phishing from PN
22-03-2018 1:56 PM
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Moderator's note:
Threads merged.
Forum Moderator and Customer
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain
He who feared he would not succeed sat still
Re: Watch out for email phishing scams supposedly from plusnet
22-03-2018 2:06 PM
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Just tried to forward a phishing mail to abuse@plus.net and it's bouncing. Can someone please check which e-mail address we should be using?
Thanks
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