Scam email received regarding update of account details

[hansi]

Has anyone else received an email purporting to be from Virgin asking the account holder to click on a link and verify account details? I take it, it is a scam?

[Kymmy]

Easiest way of telling is to look at the REAL HYPERLINKED URL (hover the mouse over the link) and if it's not ....virginmedia.com/... but instead something like ...virginmedia.limdadsf.com then yes it is a phishing email...

Though gawd knows why they'd want to phish a VM account as it's not as if they can take money out of it..

[Raistlin]

Yes.

It's a scam.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Though gawd knows why they'd want to phish a VM account as it's not as if they can take money out of it..

The login info is usually the same login for the primary mail boxes on the account

[Kymmy]

But still why would they need it?? Not as if they can't spoof a domain/IP when they send out SPAM..