Baker & McKenzie

[bhawoddy]

I can't be the only one expecting this to be BG filling us in on the latest players we've been linked to on his rumours site?

Nope, before clicked the thread open I was trying to think of which clubs baker and Mackenzie played for!

 

[bhawoddy]

Is it not natural if you receive an e mail from a legal firm, as a google search showed, and it says for further detaiks of the claim click here, you click to find out exactly what it is. Or am I being naive and too trusting?

I think you may know the answer to this.

 

[maltaseagull]

I received an e mail from these people but know nothing about it. It says pre trial notice and has a link to read the details but when I clicked on it a message came up error 404, Anybody know anything about them a google shows they are International Lawyers but doesnt say what field they specialise in.

Check your PC for Malware. We are getting a lot of these at work, all phishing and all addressed to individual email addresses not group ones. I had one the other day informing me I had a voice message and click on the link to listen!!

Lot's of sneaky boogers out there.

 

[Questions]

If we are offered any Nigerian players does Barber have to give the clubs bank details out first ?

 

[bhawoddy]

I got a call the other day from someone purporting to be from the our bank, eventually they asked me to login to my account and tell them the pin and username.

You can't make it up. Amazingly they tried again the following day too. Unreal!!

 

[BensGrandad]

If nothing else this has highlighted another scam account for people to look out for, so all is not bad.

 

[BensGrandad]

Nope, before clicked the thread open I was trying to think of which clubs baker and Mackenzie played for!

Joe Baker & Duncan McKenzie

 

[Brian Fantana]

As a general rule, if you're not expecting an e-mail from someone and it asks you to click a link (no matter how innocous it seems) just don't do it. Delete it and don't worry.

Most e-mail scams now appear to come from legitimate firms, it doesn't mean it actually is. I've had a few from 'HSBC' in the last week regarding my account with them, which is impressive when you consider I don't actually have one.

Oh, also, if you don't recall actually giving the firm in question your e-mail address in the first place then it's probably a good sign that something isn't quite right.

This, 100%.

 

[BensGrandad]

I must admit when I received it I googled the firm and it seemed authentic and a reputable firm but in future will take account of what has been said and just delete any unknown. If they need to contact me then as has been said they will send a letter.

 

[BigGully]

I must admit when I received it I googled the firm and it seemed authentic and a reputable firm but in future will take account of what has been said and just delete any unknown. If they need to contact me then as has been said they will send a letter.

Thats what happens BG when you have skeletons in the cupboard, its difficult not to react when faced with communication from Lawyers.

 

[BensGrandad]

Thats what happens BG when you have skeletons in the cupboard, its difficult not to react when faced with communication from Lawyers.

Who hasnt even outstanding parking tickets when you see the programs of law enforcement on tv by bailiffs and sherrifs.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Who hasn't even outstanding parking tickets.....

Mine are pretty mundane too

 

[Brian Fantana]

I must admit when I received it I googled the firm and it seemed authentic and a reputable firm but in future will take account of what has been said and just delete any unknown. If they need to contact me then as has been said they will send a letter.

I think that's a wise decision, BG. The lesson to learn from this is that scammers deliberately pick on reputable firms in order to entice their targets in. I think the questions to always ask yourself when you receive emails like this are 'am I customer of this firm?', 'do I have any on-going, currrent communications with this firm?' 'do I remember giving them my email address ever?'. If the answer is no, delete.

For a legal matter especially, as you've already highlighted, they would almost certainly contact you via letter in the first instance.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I must admit when I received it I googled the firm and it seemed authentic and a reputable firm but in future will take account of what has been said and just delete any unknown. If they need to contact me then as has been said they will send a letter.

If you want to read the contents of an email before opening it, go to your inbox or junk mail folder and right click your mouse over one of the mails in it. You'll get a number of options including 'View Message Source'. Select that, and you'll get to see what's in the message. It includes all the message formatting characters which won't make any sense to you, but you should also be able to read the actual message part embedded in it, and maybe get an early indication from that whether its likely to be a scam or not. Give it a try with a message you know is ok.

 

[crabface]

Who lets BensGrandad near a computer?

 

[BensGrandad]

Who lets BensGrandad near a computer?

BensGrandad bought it himself and is still learning. They werent about when I was at school and you would probably be as blind if given a slide rule to use.

 

[Frutos]

BensGrandad bought it himself and is still learning. They werent about when I was at school and you would probably be as blind if given a slide rule to use.

The difference being that you don't risk compromising your personal and/or bank details by misuse of a slide rule.

In your defence though, you're by no means alone. An Uncle of mine fell for one of those phone calls from the 'bank' which required his account details et al to 'prove his identity' and was stung for thousands.

 

[BensGrandad]

I know sufficient to not give any information about myself and I shred anything that has my address on it. I was just taken in by a letter from a legal firm that could have harmed my pc but posed no security risk as such and the good people of NSC put me on the straight and narrow. Thank you.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I know sufficient to not give any information about myself and I shred anything that has my address on it. I was just taken in by a letter from a legal firm that could have harmed my pc but posed no security risk as such and the good people of NSC put me on the straight and narrow. Thank you.

Out of interest, and this isn't meant to scare (or condescend) in any way, but do you ever type out personal information on your PC, such as when banking (or shopping, gambling etc.)?

If so, then it's entirely plausible that simple keylogging malware (or whatever terminology would be most accurate) could capture that information. Unlike someone rummaging through your dustbin, this method would provide passwords and goodness knows what else.

It's not really the well being of your pc you've got to be concerned about as it's the information stored on it that's the valuable part.

As I said at the start, that's not meant to scare or anything and it's fairly rare for something like that to actually happen if you have even basic security tools installed BUT it is still possible.

 

[BensGrandad]

Is that for stored passwords as when signing in many say do you want us to remember the password or the bank says remember user name.