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Don't get caught by the Cyprus bank scam emails
By FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE ONLINE STAFF 15.DEC.08
People who bank online in Cyprus are again being warned to ignore emails from banks.

A new spam email claiming to be from Laiki bank is circulating in Cyprus.

The email, despite several spelling mistakes, looks genuine, and appears to come from a genuine bank email, but they are just part of a number of sophisticated scams designed to rip you off.

The latest email,with the subject line NEW MESSAGE, claims that the bank has, “noticed some errors in your Account Details. For this reason, we require you to validate your Banking Informations again.”

The advice from most banks is to press the delete button.
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[CBBB]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

[Tim Drayton]

Thanks for passing on this warning.

[wallace]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

Seconded And don't forget to react on the Nigerian style e-mail were they promise you a million when you coorporate to get a large amount of money out of the country and not to forget the winning lottery e-mails....they are the best

[DT.]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

Seconded And don't forget to react on the Nigerian style e-mail were they promise you a million when you coorporate to get a large amount of money out of the country and not to forget the winning lottery e-mails....they are the best

I've been exchanging emails with a Nigerian Princess who s trying to release her fathers 75,000,000 USD with my help

I wanna see how long I can string this idiot along for.

[Tim Drayton]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

Seconded And don't forget to react on the Nigerian style e-mail were they promise you a million when you coorporate to get a large amount of money out of the country and not to forget the winning lottery e-mails....they are the best

I've been exchanging emails with a Nigerian Princess who s trying to release her fathers 75,000,000 USD with my help

I wanna see how long I can string this idiot along for.

Nigerian Princess? Erm ... I thought Nigeria was a republic.

[roseandchan]

i have had a few recently from hotmail regarding verifying my acount. wanting user names. email adress's ect ect.

[DT.]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

Seconded And don't forget to react on the Nigerian style e-mail were they promise you a million when you coorporate to get a large amount of money out of the country and not to forget the winning lottery e-mails....they are the best

I've been exchanging emails with a Nigerian Princess who s trying to release her fathers 75,000,000 USD with my help

I wanna see how long I can string this idiot along for.

Nigerian Princess? Erm ... I thought Nigeria was a republic.

How dare you question the Nigerian Royal Family

[doesntmatter]

So what's new? These phishing emails have been around for years, any idiot that takes any notice of them deserves what they get!

The only thing new to me personally is that the scam emails are from Cyprus and as we are in a Cyprus forum I thought it best to warn people.

[doesntmatter]

i have had a few recently from hotmail regarding verifying my acount. wanting user names. email adress's ect ect.

Hotmail isn't very secure, I know a few people who'se accounts were hacked even though they deleted such scam emails and never replied to them. Their account was used to sent advertisement messages to all the contacts in their lists.