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no i use Gmail (now google mail) as my main one, but i just flciked through my hotmail account and as i speak the total has now gone up to 12 so i think ill delete them all, thanks everyone! xxx

1: No business would include an IP address if they believed it wasn't yours.

2: No business email would have such excessive use of exclamation points.

3: If it were serious enough to get them to want to talk to you, they would more than likely call you, not email you.

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Originally posted by Woraug
1: No business would include an IP address if they believed it wasn't yours.

2: No business email would have such excessive use of exclamation points.

3: If it were serious enough to get them to want to talk to you, they would more than likely call you, not email you.

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Lots of businesses include IP address that they suspect weren't yours, but your other two points are very strong.

I an definite that this email is a fraud. Notice that the email doesn't greet you with your name, and the bank certainly knows it, since you have an account with them. The only thing that is asked of you is your details, and you are given a vague threat about the consequences of not provising your information.

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Originally posted by Woraug
1: No business would include an IP address if they believed it wasn't yours.

2: No business email would have such excessive use of exclamation points.

3: If it were serious enough to get them to want to talk to you, they would more than likely call you, not email you.

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4: No businesses made so many capitalization and other grammatical mistakes.

5: Large Companies would have a 'registered trademark' Thing.

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Originally posted by Nagamasa

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Originally posted by Woraug
1: No business would include an IP address if they believed it wasn't yours.

2: No business email would have such excessive use of exclamation points.

3: If it were serious enough to get them to want to talk to you, they would more than likely call you, not email you.

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4: No businesses made so many capitalization and other grammatical mistakes.

5: Large Companies would have a 'registered trademark' Thing.

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6. They would state your full name.

To put things straight...

1) many businesses would state IPs, depending on what the mail is about

3) many businesses would mail you instead of calling you. Not everybody lives in the same country where the business is located.

5) I don't see what registered trademarks would have to do with determining if an email is fake or not. Those reg. trademarks can be copied just as well...

6) They would state your full name only if you entered your full name somewhere...

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The only proper way to see if an email is fake or not is to go to the official business site by yourself, thus without following the link in the email...

Everything else (like those points listed above is pure guesswork and shouldn't be used as a 'guideline' at all).

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Originally posted by NiteMare
NEVER EVER, EVER just click a link in an e-mail, expecially for banks/paypal/ebay sort of thing

just open up your web browser and enter the website, such as https://www.paypal.com, if its important enough for them to email you about it, they will deffinatly give you a warning or a message when you log in normally, if not, its a hoax, 9 times out of 10

if you hover your mouse over the link, it will say something like "http://23.23.56.24/paypal.com/login.php" or some thing like that, which is deffinatly not how you get to paypal.

so again, never click e-mail links randomly

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