Just read that people are getting scam emails supposedly from ‘service@amazon.co.uk’,

I got several that seem very similar from 'service @paypal.co.uk', Oct-Nov last year.

The only button that I pressed was 'print'.

I have not used paypal for at least 5 years and my card details have changed since then, but to be on the safe side I visited my bank.

The bank said that they had had customers with problems with this particular e-mail, but only those that had 'clicked the link', but to be on the safe side they offered and I accepted a text messaging service that notifies me whenever a withdrawl over a certain amount is made from my current account.

I must admit that my bank is fairly good, I have never had problems with money going out wrongly, but have on a couple of occasions had purchases delayed when the amount was higher than usual and 'outside my normal usage'.

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Kevin

I got an email the other day that purported to be from a law firm, claiming they had just received a parking ticket in my name and I should pay it right away.

The bank that runs the credit card I use for pretty much everything has a text message fraud system that's easy to respond to, if I pay attention to it. It also occasionally has funny triggers. Sunday was the end of my cycle and I paid it off by Friday. The last use was Thursday, here in town. Tuesday morning, I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

... I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud.

Had similar thing happen to be some years back... Used my cc at a Red Box (DVD vending machine) less than 1 mile from house where I attempted to rent 2 DVD's and it was flagged as fraud. Odd thing was I had been using that exact cc at that same box for 3+ years with no problems.

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Oh my goodness, it finally happened. I just got the Windows Service Department call. I was able to keep him talking for about 35 minuets before he hung up on me. Wish I had a recorder in my office. I was having fun.

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I got it this morning too. I had a wireless keyboard in my bedroom closet so I grabbed it and strung him along for about 20 minutes.

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New Twist. Left a message, my windows license is to be terminated, call a fraud number. As I write this on my Mac.

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Just been checking my e-mail. Got this on Sat :-)

I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun.

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<computer voice>
"Your Windows license key has been expired, to further information call Un-7 1-312-BIG-SCAM if you do not call your windows will be terminated over."
</computer voice>

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A new variation
<female computer voice>
844-BIG-SCAM to renew your microsoft services. its 844-BIG-SCAM.
</female computer voice>

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I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun.

LOL....then he would really have a hard time believing that I have 8 of them running.
Bring it on, scammers, bring it on.

Meow!

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."