I keep getting emails from 'Barclays Bank' but I don't have an account .....

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I haven't been daft enough to open them - this latest one is titled "Barclays IBank SECURE VERIFICATION PROCESS" from 'Barclays UK' and I've had one from 'Barclays Bank'

d'yer thing they're dodgy? is anyone else getting them?

I'm getting them too - they are phishing emails where theives try to get your banking details so that they can raid your bank accounts!

do I just ignore them or inform someone? who though?

bast*rds!

They go into my bulk mail but I'm so nosey I have to look before I delete

Please don't open them, I had a policewoman around this evening to investigate my owncase of internet fraud and she told me about these spoof emails.

eek! glad I have some grey cells still working

Me too.... and loads of dodgy sex stuff.
Can't work out why-my e mail account is a few years old and was virgin territory until recently.

I thought that you had to open an attachment on a virus email before it could do any damage - so you could open them safely, but shouldn't reply with your bank details or open attachments. Is that wrong? Can merely opening a fraudulent email cause you some harm?

I'm getting loads of them at work - odd because I left that company 18 months ago. Am back on a contract so they've given me the same email address as previously and am getting loads of 'work opportunity in financial services, we just need your bank account details' emails. Which is really stupid because I'm working for a consumer protection organisation!

I meant click on the bit they ask you to or give details rather than open. Sorry! Although it is always an idea to scan supicious emails.

I'm not even going to open them, there's no point.

getting loads- 2 tonight, I just delete them

They are viruses - people been getting them at work.

the Barclays fraudsters do seem to be particularly busy at the moments. I recently started getting a lot after I registered a domain name, and the email sent to that name gets redirected to one of my accounts - which suddenly started to get around 5 spams a day.

I maintain a couple of email addresses that I give when I am afraid of getting spam, because I know I can drop them whenever I want.

I've had about 10 from "Barclays" in the last 2 days and it's annoying.I've reported them as spam and they're still coming back.

definitely dodgy. Unfortunately fraudsters are getting cleverer and even running your mouse over parts of the e-mail may not be wise. I've tried reporting some to trading standards and they ask for my address - why????? Have also tried to find bank e-mails so they can warn their customers but they are hard to find. So now I just assume someone else has told them and don't bother.

More worringly there are a lot of spoof e-mials around now headed things like "I've changed my e-mail" or "returned message" that may not be so obviously fraudulent but can still cause trouble. I get these at my hotmail address - my main e-mail is given only to those I know very well and has stayed relatively spam free!

im getting them!

On Friday,I had one picked up by anti virus who's subject was headed Tiscali security message your email account has been suspended from "the administrator Tiscali"

by conicidence I had changed my details earlier in the week so I would have opened it if Norton hadn't intercepted it and informed me it contained a "threat"

except of course that my email was clearly not suspended as it arrived alongside some other emails lol

I get so many of these its silly. My most recent one was from someone who said he was a stockbroker who could make me loads of money if I just sent him all my bank details!!!! then there was some silly poem at the bottom which was clearly criminal coded language to each other. very bizarre.

If anyone goes on Ebay you get phishing ones from Ebay and Paypal too. Be very careful as they look very genuine. Never log in your details in reply to one of these.

They are definitely dodgy. I got so sick of the Barclays Bank ones, asking me to follow a link and confirm account details, that I sent back a reply saying "i do not have an account with barclays- you are con men". It came back to me as undeliverable! Just junk the lot. And as the banks say never confirm passwords etc unless you in the your on-line banks website.

they're coming from 'Lloyds' now!

Yes our first one from Lloyds arrived today. Try 'block sender', sometimes it stops them coming through