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What is call spoofing?

by Community Manager SeanD in Announcements, Guides & Community Updates RECOMMENDED
‎03-06-2020 14h10
‎03-06-2020 14h10
Hi Everyone, With all types of scams on the rise, we thought it would be useful to explain what ‘call spoofing’ is and to offer you some advice, so you can better protect yourself from bad actors w...

Email Spoofing

by DaveWadd in Email
‎17-08-2021 11h24
‎17-08-2021 11h24
...Interested to hear if others have received such messages. If it is a spoof, where does one report it to BT?
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  • report it   phishing@bt.com

Spoofed email address

by ByJings in Email
‎23-06-2021 19h53
‎23-06-2021 19h53
...ny implications and/or risks to my own email account from doing this ? 3. I thought BT had systems in place to prevent this type of email spoofing, so how did this manage to get through and can a...
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  • ...n place to prevent this type of email spoofing, so how did this manage to get through and can a...

My number appears to have been spoofed

by Chris_S987654321 in Home phone including Digital Voice
‎21-03-2022 10h49
‎21-03-2022 10h49
...ontracted, am I stuck with my spoofy number for the next 18 months? Thanks!
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  • Speak with the Nuisance Calls team (NCB) on 0800 661 441, explain your number has been spoofed, t...

Blocking Mcafee & Norton spoof renewal requests

by chrish1958 in Email
‎07-11-2021 10h34
‎07-11-2021 10h34
Hi everyone, I have quite a few spam addresses successfully blocked on my account, but I cannot stop the one below which I am being pestered with multiple times a day for spoof Mcafee & Norton r...
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  • As already explained, the only visible address will be the gmail address you can see in the 'To' bo...

'Spoof' emails being sent

by Oxymoron in Email
‎21-01-2020 13h10
‎21-01-2020 13h10
I had a terse message from a contact saying did I know that my email account was sending them spoof emails - the sort that simply send a link for you to click on. I didn't as as all my virus and s...
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  • Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing you can do about it other than warn your contacts.

My landline seems to have been "Spoofed"

by Mark36 in Home phone including Digital Voice
‎16-03-2022 10h28
‎16-03-2022 10h28
I am posting this here as i can't find any information online as what to do when your number has been spoofed. We are an emergency services provider and one of our range of DDI numbers appear to b...
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  • @Mark36  As you are a business, you will need to post on the BT Business Forum, as this is t...

Re: Spoofed email address

by liebls in Email
‎01-01-2022 14h58
‎01-01-2022 14h58
Is it true that there is no way of preventing an email being spoofed? I have just had the identical scam again purportedly from an eldery neighbour. Again, he and I are both @btinternet.com. S...
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  • ...bout spoofing email addresses and if you do an Internet search about spoofing you will find more i...
  • ...hould run something like the free version of Malwarebytes and change her password.  Spoofing...
  • ...ut the text name of the email address and reply to address used to make it look similar. Email spoofing...

Spoof calls from BT?

by CorshamWoo in Archive Staging
‎09-02-2017 13h15
‎09-02-2017 13h15
We are receiving several calls every day purporting to be from BTfrom this number  01255898982 - annoying
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  • There are lots of them, and many posts on this forum relating to them.   https://community...

Spoofing a landline / 1471

by Karen93 in Home phone including Digital Voice
‎27-09-2021 21h52
‎27-09-2021 21h52
I recently received a call from someone claiming to be from Santander's Fraud Team, I knew for a fact that they were scammers, they rang my landline, I checked the number using 1471 and the number wa...
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  • ...antander customer, and received a call where the scammer went to the trouble of spoofing a genuine S...

What is call spoofing?

by Community Manager SeanD in Announcements, Guides & Community Updates
‎03-06-2020 14h10
‎03-06-2020 14h10
Hi Everyone, With all types of scams on the rise, we thought it would be useful to explain what ‘call spoofing’ is and to offer you some advice, so you can better protect yourself from bad actors w...
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