Got this email today - is it a Scam???

[old_email]

So it continues, reported to BT, reported to report@phishing.gov.uk  regularly since my original post. 

Subject: We are updating our terms

Dear Mail User

We will be closing all of our old BT Email versions on May 28th, 2024 Based on the information we have in our records, your BT  account has not been upgraded to our new version.

Click on the account revalidated button to continue receiving all mail on hold

url omitted for obvious reasons

To log in, you'll need your BT ID. This is usually your email address.

Managing Director,

Thanks for choosing BT!
BT Member services

So what is the point in reporting?  No-one cares. No-one appears to be doing anything I get this email from "FeedBack" or "Feed Back" to three of my @btinternet address with monotonous regularity.  "Feed back" regularly say "this is the last time" and I wish I could respond with "please make it so". 

At the least BT could be blocking them . 

[gg30340]

Have you checked the email address of the email account that is actually sending the email and not just the one you see in the address box.

To do that either hover your mouse over the email address or select the email by placing a tick in the box to the left of the email then go to the more button in the menu bar and select view source.

This will sho the originating email address and if you do that you will most likely find each of the "same" emails come from a different source, hence when you are reporting them or block them it is only that source address that get blocked and not the hundreds of other source addreses the scammers use.

If it  is very difficult for ISPs to filter out all spam but they do a good job given the many millions of spam emails that are sent every hour.

[old_email]

So the robbers are much cleverer than the cops that are supposed to catch them.  No self respecting spammer or scammer is going to use their real addresses, that's why they use a (changing) URL to capture the BT login details they request .

I had assumed that there were serious attempt being made to stop spams/scams beyond 1990s techniques.  MXTOOLBOX does not report the URL as being blacklisted.

Bring back Mr Plod and his whistle.

[gg30340]

If it was as easy as you apparently think perhaps you should contact the ISPs and "cops" and tell them what they are doing wrong and show them the " correct" way they should have been using.

I'm sure they will be gratefull to find out what they have been doing wrong and finally be given the ultimate fix to rid the world of spam!

[old_email]

They can't afford me.

I guess folks haven't heard of, or can't be bothered with Naive Bayes classifier or similar, and there's this "new" thing called AI.

20 years ago I was running a Naive Bayes classifier incorporated in my email client and had I received this particular email firstly it probably would have been caught without training, and if I trained it once then that's all it would need.  It was over 99.6% accurate in classifying not just spam but by type of email eg business hobby type or whatever.  And that was on Windows XP

As I and others have reported this particular email then it should now still not be coming through, but it seems as if BT need the sender to come from "I'm-a-scammer-domain.com" to stand any chance of blocking it. 

[gg30340]

Gosh if it's that easy why have you not made yourself a billionaire by selling your fix world wide.

I'm pretty sure all the ISPs world wide would pay loads of money to stop all the spam being sent and the money istitutions would chip in which would save them all the millions they pay out in compensation to customers who have fallen foul of scammers.

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[old_email]

One of life's missed opportunities and now as my username suggests I'm well retired and have more important matters to deal with.

But funny that it is only the btinernet accounts that persistently get these emails, not any of my accounts I use for financial, or even for social media. 

[gg30340]

  Do you not think that could be because the email content is directed towards BT customers.