Scam email claiming to be from BT (but clearly isn't).

[andydenyer]

Just to make people aware in case they receive the same (or something very similar) so they DON'T click on any links contained in the email which I have received today with the following text:

We have attempted to contact your account multiple times through notifications and alerts, but we have not received a response from you.
As a result, you are no longer receiving automatic updates that safeguard against the latest cyber threats.
To secure your computer once again, please click the button below.

The email is NOT from a BT domain and is clearly a scam.

I've marked it as spam, blocked the domain from which it came (maidence.com), and forwarded it to phishing@bt.com and report@phishing.co.uk (Action Fraud).

[duncansby]

i've been getting these for weeks.  I block them and report them but to no avail they keeping coming.  Meanwhile messages from Amazon are ending up in my junk folder!  Are the spam filters broken at BT?

[sandramary]

I too have been getting these, each one more threatening than the last, now telling me my virus protection has ceased and I must renew it. Not true. obviously a scam but very irritating.