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Email received

warmbell — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:57:19 GMT

Has anybody received an email supposedly coming from O2

It says

Dear User,

We're currently upgrading our system, your request to upgrade your account is
very important to us.

and it comes from [edited]

DO NOT OPEN IT

warmbell

Re: Email received

perksie — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:53:16 GMT

These emails are often going the rounds, as long as you don't respond you should be safe.

Re: Email received

jonsie — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:54:52 GMT

I think the address is a fairly good clue:smileywink:

Re: Email received

perksie — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:55:55 GMT

Possibly the one shown here:

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/email/your-o2-update-o2

Re: Email received

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:27:16 GMT

It is a scam o2 would never ask you to do that

Re: Email received

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:14:45 GMT

One of the biggest clues as well - is that the email does not address you by name - simply as "User". Official emails would always use your name, unless it was a simple marketing email which would not require you to "sign in" or "register" anywhere.

Re: Email received

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:52:56 GMT

I've had 4 of these emails in the last week. The clue for me was they'd obviously copied and pasted the information we recevied about getting our £10 voucher, put it into their email but the rest of the text is a slightly different font and size! And there's some text at the bottom about customer services which is all bunched together and spaces missing etc! Very dodgy! Unfortunately i'm sure there'll be a few people think its genuine and follow the links!