RE: Weird Emails from Barclays

[GLASEM]

Been getting strange Emails from Barclays in my junk Email the past several days
Says I've made various transactions
Don't have any accounts with them
I assume its spam

Anyone else getting these??????

[thumbdoctor]

Spam !, next you'll receive an inheritance notice in questionable English.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, I won the "National Lottery" twice last week. And I won some lottery in England as well. I did not open the email so I don't know the details. I just flushed them into the spam sewer.

[Z-man]

I got an email from Barclay's last week as well - spam folder caught it, and then I deleted it.

-Z

[Radioactive]

I have received a few, flagged as spam, also had a zipped attachment.

[recycled sixtie]

The way they work is this. It is junk/spam. There is a certain % of the population that deals with say Barclays. Some of the gullible will log onto that message thinking it is directed to that person. The Barclays sender hacks into that account and sends crazy messages about for instance Mr. gullible needing money and needs rescuing. Don't ask me how I know . LOL

[MBAtarga]

I've gotten 3 of the Barclay's emails in my work email account. The first one yesterday got through the corporate filters, the next 2 I received today were caught and quarantined. They all apparently had a *.zip file attached the sender was hoping to be unzipped!

[p911dad]

My wife got one from Barclays last week. Also, she may now be a very wealthy woman, just one email away from $25 million from some nice folks in Nigeria.

[Synchro Joe]

Just forward them to: internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk and let them do the tracking and detective work. Love those internet cafes in Nigeria!!!

[masraum]

It's not at all unusual to get SPAM messages from various banks. It's not actually coming from the bank, but they want you to think it is. If they send emails to 1,000,000 people saying "I am the bank, please click the link below and login to check your account. www.bank.com/givemeyourlogin", out of the 1,000,000 emails, maybe 100 people actually have an account at bank X and out of that 100, maybe only 1 person clicks the link and tries to log in. Then they have the login information for someone that they can use for theft and other things.

I don't normally pay much attention to what I delete out of my SPAM folder, but I just deleted 5 emails from Barclays. I also do not have an account with them.

[gacook]

You guys made me decide to check my Spam folder (I typically don't cuz it auto-deletes after a week). Nothing in there from Barclays, but there was an email from my "wife" that I thought was interesting. Email came from her name, but was actually something completely different once you look at the actual address.

[thumbdoctor]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

Sorry to derail this thread but I just noticed something.

Thumb Doctor? Really?
That seems really, really specialized!

Got your index finger mangled in an industrial accident? Sucks to be you. Call me when you need some Thumb work done!

So is a Proctologist !

[gr8fl4porsche]

Barclay's here too.

Gmail has been doing its job catching them and letting me know they are suspicious.

[pete3799]

One yesterday and another today.

[GWN7]

I got one from Apple telling me my account has been suspended. I have to log in and update my information. Only problem is I don't have any Apple products.

[azasadny]

Unless Barclays is now located in Russia, those emails are NOT from Barclays...

[stevie 77 930]

its not just me....
after receiving my first 2 of these, panic sent in and had to check my protection provider to see if any of my accounts were compromised. thankfully not. i had 12 of these sent to my work email. Each time I marked as junk and blocked sender, they have sightly different orientation @barclays.com so each has slipped through.

[dw1]

I've been getting between 2 and 4 of these per day for the last week.

They are obviously spam, but they also include a nasty Trojan virus as an attached "zip" file. Under NO circumstances should you open any of the attachments to the fraudulent "Barclay's" e-mails.

[StevoRocket]

Example

The original has a "Payment receipt" Zip file attached and various Logo Barclays signs.

Transaction details

Transaction is completed. £1241 has been successfully transfered.
If the transaction was made by mistake please contact our customer service.
Payment receipt is attached.
Barclays is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Barclays Bank PLC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (Financial Services Register No. 122702). Registered in England. Registered Number is 1026167 with registered office at 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.

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Naturally if you open the file you are screwed.

[Icemaster]

Ironic. I'm hip deep in a project with them. They've been talking about this for a couple weeks now, it's been making the rounds. Definitely not legit, Barclays knows about it.