Defeating scams

A local Member of Parliament considers the following to be ‘sensible advice’ and should be published.

By The Newsroom

Published 1st Sep 2014, 11:00 BST

We are deluged with emails from banks and other institutions and companies. These often offer compensation or services. I bin most of these as suspect and potentially dangerous.

If they are genuine, they should not provide a link in the email which has to be used in order to obtain forms and details. If the email is a scam, then the link must be false.

Banks should ask the customer to go to his existing online account, on his computer, to contact the bank , in order to obtain details.

The same applies to sites like Amazon, Ebay, etc.

R.W. Standing

Sea Road

East Preston

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