Another Scam !!

I don't understand why I don't get any of these scam emails (not that I want them!!!). I do a lot of internet ordering from my hotmail account, plus correspondence etc., yet I rarely receive spam or anything dodgy.

I've had a look in my junk mail file and there aren't many there either. Perhaps hotmail is so old-hat spammers and scammers don't bother with me!

It's a minefield!

I get quite a few, but today's nearly had me. It was from Parcelforce telling me the tracking number for my order from Dotcomgiftshop. I do order from them, and was just about to click when I remembered that I had managed to find the most recent gift elsewhere, so hadn't ordered from them after all.

Of course, I copied down the tracking no, went onto parcelforce's website and no such tracking no. exists.

I keep getting emails entitled "Your forthcoming Court appearance" or various similar wording. I never click on them, but it's worrying me in case I am supposed to be appearing in Court! I can't think why I would, though.

And emails in Chinese writing. I get loads of those and always delete them.

And another - purportedly from Lloyds Bank, entitled "Staying secure online", and addressing me as "Valued customer" It tells me that they are starting a new secure system, and I should follow their link to check in and alter my details. I am not even a LLoyds customer, let alone a valued one.

I went to my "view" menu, and from there to "message source", copied the whole of that, which includes a lot of technical stuff that means nothing to you and me but can help experts to trace where it comes from.

Then I googled "Lloyds bank scam emails" and found an email address to send a message to them, with all the information pasted in.

Tiggy I've had loads of these. I keep forwarding them to BT.

Actually I had a similar and went through the official telephone site. It was their genuine number. I don't understand what's happening either. In my case it was O2