There's a new version of the old Outlook scam around. Basically it sends you an e mail suggesting that you have been naughty and you need to confirm your account by clicking on this link . Most savvy folks will not use the link, but contact the supposed sender to find that e mail is a scam . Again, advice is -DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS.

we are getting them pop up in work recently, purporting to be sent from colleagues and/or external contacts from up ti 5yrs ago.

 

Flagging as "notification of secure email" with a dodgy link to check said email.

 

Funny.. ive noticed the amount of spammy junk and this kinda crap has increased massively since our IT dept upgraded to outlooks cloud service.

Swimbo gets regular amount of "free gifts"/ "special offers" from every well known store name, and it's coming from Turkey/ Russia /Germany ,in fact almost anywhere that you'd not expect to find Morrisons/M&S/ Coop to be operating from .

We now have problems where people refuse to click on links from legitimate companies and organisations.

 

Can't win really.

2 hours ago, Aspman said:

We now have problems where people refuse to click on links from legitimate companies and organisations.

 

Can't win really.

 

We're trying to implement Otka at work, and the welcome email it send ticks most of the "spammy" checks quite nicely!

 

 

13 hours ago, mac11irl said:

Funny.. ive noticed the amount of spammy junk and this kinda crap has increased massively since our IT dept upgraded to outlooks cloud service.

 

Probably as you now missing out the spam filtering which would have been filtering email before it hit your exchange (or whatever) internal mail servers.  Pretty sure where I work, about 95% of email is canned off as spam before it reaches the users.  It then sits in a spam portal where it can be released if the system gets it wrong, but to be fair I've not had to release anything from it in about 5 years!.

4 hours ago, mbames said:

 

We're trying to implement Otka at work, and the welcome email it send ticks most of the "spammy" checks quite nicely!

 

 

 

Probably as you now missing out the spam filtering which would have been filtering email before it hit your exchange (or whatever) internal mail servers.  Pretty sure where I work, about 95% of email is canned off as spam before it reaches the users.  It then sits in a spam portal where it can be released if the system gets it wrong, but to be fair I've not had to release anything from it in about 5 years!.

 

 

Some of my regular suppliers have to email in via our postmaster "clearing house" as the filter keeps rejecting their email...

7 hours ago, Aspman said:

We now have problems where people refuse to click on links from legitimate companies and organisations.

 

Can't win really.

brides.ru is legit isn't it?

1 hour ago, Lee01 said:

brides.ru is legit isn't it?

 

Never falls out of the DNS cache 

 

 

Some of my regular suppliers have to email in via our postmaster "clearing house" as the filter keeps rejecting their email...

 

We can train and apply white listing (at a user level) if there are regular messag senders which blocked.

Edited 24 March, 20179 yr by mbames

Pass on this for IT blokes to have a laff. Years ago I worked for a firm doing road & rail repairs. Chat with one of out  IT regarding filters and it transpired that the road section had problems with orders. They'd ordered x amount of "hardcore" , which filter rejected and order never got sent.

On 24/03/2017 at 19:30, Lee01 said:

brides.ru is legit isn't it?

 

I hope so. Their postage is extortionate.