Phishing email from BA.com today? (BA lurkers please read)
Aug 23, 2011, 6:19 pm
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Got one the other day from Chase offering me 100,000 BA miles just for getting one of their cards. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?
Aug 23, 2011, 7:44 pm
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Aug 23, 2011, 10:36 pm
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This sounds like the automated response to an online attempt to change or confirm the email address in a BAEC profile.
Aug 23, 2011, 10:44 pm
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Generally companies won't ask you to provide this kind of information. A lot of them also insert details into the email that cannot be 'guessed' from your email address. For example, when I get emails from ebay, they include my real name and ebay ID. When I get emails from BA regarding to my Executive Club newsletter, they include my membership number.
Be very suspicious of such emails. So many people have fallen into the trap.
If you get something like this again in the future there is nothing to stop you phoning up the company and asking them for more information before doing anything.
Be very suspicious of such emails. So many people have fallen into the trap.
If you get something like this again in the future there is nothing to stop you phoning up the company and asking them for more information before doing anything.
Aug 24, 2011, 1:11 am
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I'd guess that this is when the BA systems send out such messages.
However, you're right to be suspicious, as there are so many fraud attempts that look very similar.
If unsure, give BAEC a call to check if the e-mail is genuine.
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Aug 24, 2011, 1:38 am
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Can you tell the difference between ba.com and ba.com? I probably couldn't.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/01/idn-phishing/
Aug 25, 2011, 8:17 am
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Customer Contact have had several reports of phishing e-mails being received, some asking the recipient to click a link and verify a charge...
These are not from BA. Do not click the links.
As for verifying your e-mail address, that type of e-mail would only be sent if you had literally just changed your e-mail in your account, to ensure that you meant to change it. If you haven't just changed your e-mail address, and you can log into your account normally (without being asked to verify your e-mail as you log in), the e-mail you've got is fake.
Forward these to [email protected] to report any you get.
These are not from BA. Do not click the links.
As for verifying your e-mail address, that type of e-mail would only be sent if you had literally just changed your e-mail in your account, to ensure that you meant to change it. If you haven't just changed your e-mail address, and you can log into your account normally (without being asked to verify your e-mail as you log in), the e-mail you've got is fake.
Forward these to [email protected] to report any you get.
Last edited by JAXBA; Aug 30, 2011 at 6:37 am Reason: Corrected e-mail address
Aug 25, 2011, 9:03 am
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Forward these to [email protected] to report any you get.
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied (state 14).
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied (state 14).
Last edited by BenSenise; Aug 25, 2011 at 9:04 am Reason: cleaned up quote
Aug 25, 2011, 9:31 am
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Interesting. Sorry about that, that was the address we were given for customers to report the fake e-mails to. I'll check to see if it has changed.
Aug 25, 2011, 6:46 pm
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Just had a look at my Spam folder and saw I also got one.
I pasted the link into my browser and it sent me to a page which looks real ba.com to me. If I hadn't read about it on here I could easily have been fooled and logged in to my account.
I pasted the link into my browser and it sent me to a page which looks real ba.com to me. If I hadn't read about it on here I could easily have been fooled and logged in to my account.
Aug 26, 2011, 11:26 am
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What is the link of the page that looks like the real ba.com, HIDDY? What does your address bar say if you select it to look at the full address?
Aug 26, 2011, 11:37 am
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Aug 26, 2011, 12:02 pm
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It's odd - if the mail is exactly as you PM'd, it appears to link to httpS://www.britishairways.com/ and Chrome claims the certificate for the secure page (the S part on https://) is valid and from BA. Odd.
Aug 26, 2011, 12:09 pm
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It's odd - if the mail is exactly as you PM'd, it appears to link to httpS://www.britishairways.com/ and Chrome claims the certificate for the secure page (the S part on https://) is valid and from BA. Odd.
Plus....strange why I got one but my wife didn't and very few other people on this forum seem to have got one either. I haven't ever requested a password reset either.
Aug 26, 2011, 12:52 pm
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No idea - perhaps Google is over-zealous with 'password reset' or 'verify this' type keywords as the majority of them are indeed phishing. And perhaps yours was sent because some idiot requested a reset but for the wrong number/login thinking it was their own? Note also on Gmail you will get e-mails to aliases https://mail.google.com/support/bin/...y?answer=12096 too so maybe someone requested a reset to "their" address with a typo but it went to you (I've had this before) - not sure how BA's reset thing works, never used it.
Anyway, golden rule - if in doubt, don't click it. And certainly don't click something based on my posts
Anyway, golden rule - if in doubt, don't click it. And certainly don't click something based on my posts