Subway scam email

[Donnywolf]

Just had one which only came on Mobile Phone - not Laptop

It did not look like it was from Subway but knew my email address of course and my name.
There were 2 links to click to view my order (that was a clue) and an ominous (for me) invitation that if neither of those links work copy and paste this -which  didnt.
Googled Subway email scam and it is rampant

[Donnywolf]

Confirmed by Subway thi morning. Site not hacked but Email system has been accessed (is there a difference ?)

They have accessed addresses and names but no CC details are held there

Advice ? Delete the suspect email

[mushRTID]

There seems to be more scan emails than ever at the moment.

Had a pathetic looking effort come through pretending to be from PayPal and saying I had to click on the clink to confirm identity. When you clicked on their email address it was full of spelling mistakes

[Janso]

I've recently had a "DVLA debt" being collected by a random debt collection firm. The apparent debt is a year old, and the DVLA has no record of it.

If you get anything like this, don't just pay it. They rely on people taking these things at face value.

[Donnywolf]

There seems to be more scan emails than ever at the moment.

Had a pathetic looking effort come through pretending to be from PayPal and saying I had to click on the clink to confirm identity. When you clicked on their email address it was full of spelling mistakes

To be fair the Subway one was very very poor.

I spent ages though trying to find who I had an order confirmed by - but resisted touching the Links as I am always really suspicious

Cousin sent me an odd looking thing on Whatsapp so I then sent him a Text asking whether he had sent it and only when he said yes did I open it lol

[Filo]

I have a Nigerian doctor, wanting me to help him with $50M he has, he says I can have $10M if I help him, poor bloke has lost his wife and 20 kids in a terrible accident, his dog has died, the cat died and the budgie eloped with the budgie from next door, I feel really sorry for him, what should I do?

[Glyn_Wigley]

Buy him a new budgie.

[Not Now Kato]

My wife had a very authentic looking email from Hermes telling her that her order from QVD had been delivered.  The give-away was that immediately below that text was a button 'CLICK HERE TO TRACK YOUR PACKAGE' - yeh, right!  Fake as a fake thing.  Of course, she didn't click the button, but I bet some people who received it will have done!

[MachoMadness]

A lot of these scams are laughable but some are very authentic and it's not hard to imagine them catching a lot of people out.

[rich1471]

I have a Nigerian doctor, wanting me to help him with $50M he has, he says I can have $10M if I help him, poor bloke has lost his wife and 20 kids in a terrible accident, his dog has died, the cat died and the budgie eloped with the budgie from next door, I feel really sorry for him, what should I do?

Take his money an run

[SydneyRover]

give him the bird

[Bentley Bullet]

I had an Email from Subway telling me I had won a 12-inch sandwich filled with luncheon meat. It turned out to be spam.

[Pancho Regan]

I had several scam e-mails last week claiming to be from HMRC, informing me I was getting a tax refund due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

I forwarded them to:  report@phishing.gov.uk

I encourage anybody who gets dodgy e-mails to do the same, because the Govt department set up to investigate these scammers is having a lot of success.