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SalCon wrote: PM calls up
Wow, you must be working on some important projects for the Prime Minister to ring you up 
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Wash your mouth out with sulphuric acid and don't mention Moron here again.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Over the previous year’s i have receive a few Phish emails. I will always forward the email to the relevant Bank web site. Does anybody else do this ?
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They are filtered into a special folder, which I generally review each week and forward. Except for one bank which has recently put a spam filter on the "report a phishing attempt" email address which rejects them and bounces them right back... 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Always forward them. There was a time when my bank's phishing email address - scam@bank.co.uk used to bounce anything with malicious content...
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Yes I do. I don't forward them, I send them as attachments to the establishment's relevant support site.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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No, a few years ago I saw a new type of phishing email for ebay in my inbox.
Rather than usual run of the mill it actually exploited a vulnerability on the ebay site.
Out of curiosity I investigated how it was working - as I recall, it was able to inject the malicious content into ebay's help pages - so it was served from the ebay domain.
Figuring this was I quite serious, I took the time to send all the details to ebay's fraud team.
They replied with a generic (probably automated) email telling me how to reset my password if I thought my account had been compromised.
I don't bother reporting any more.
I have no reason to suspect the banks are any better.  --
The Obliterator
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I know what you mean, and I have had a couple of generic replies (or more usually nothing at all), but I work on the principle that if I've reported it via a mechanism they has set up for just that purpose and they ignore it, then if nothing else they are liable to a certain extent for any money the fraudsters do con people out of thanks to their active negligence.
Since they will try to rip us off as much as possible if given half a chance, I don't see why people who lose money due to their inaction should not be able to claw some of it back.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I have for Paypal, Ebay, and banks that make it easy to find the proper address, but I haven't received any such emails for a while.
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