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Conor Pope / TwitterScam 'refund' mail purporting to be from Electric Ireland doing rounds. Warn your friends, specially the vulnerable pic.twitter.com/T0l2DU0Ehn
— Conor Pope (@conor_pope) November 18, 2015
A NUMBER OF ESB customers have received letters targeting them as part of an email phishing scam.
The emails appear to come from Electric Ireland and offer customers a refund for money they’ve already paid.
To receive this, customers are asked to provide a scanned copy of their passport as well as their bank details.
In a statement ESB has said that it would like to advise customers that the email “was not sent by Electric Ireland” and that anyone who has received one of the emails is advised “not to click on the link or reply to the email”.
ESB Group / TwitterPress Statement from @ElectricIreland on Phishing Email Scam: https://t.co/u8BwMgnz4P
— ESB Group (@ESBGroup) November 18, 2015
Anyone who has already completed the form is advised to contact their debit card company or bank immediately and to change the password for their online billing account.
The utility has also said that it wishes to “assure all Electric Ireland customers that your personal details on Electric Ireland’s database are secure and have not been compromised”.
ESB’s IT department are currently investigating the matter and it has been reported to gardaí.
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I got two bills from a company calling itself Irish Water. I’m not sure how they got my details. Just a heads up.
Must be a scam so.
You should alert the Guards
Why – they think phishing is angling?!
I know this sounds harsh, but after repeated warnings about phishing email for years, anyone that clicks on this email and sends through their personal details should not be on email in the first place.
And scans their passport!!
And their bank details !!!
I receive several a week, normally trying for PayPal details. I got one today, better than normal standard scam pretending to be from revenue, a tax refund due, form attached for bank details to make return to.
Send them fake bank account details, with an attachment labelled ‘passport scan’ – which is actually a virus.
A bit of revenge…
How can anyone be stupid enough to:
a) Click on the link
b) Email a scanned copy of their passport
c) Email their bank details
The mind boggles!
I sent your details Shak – hope that’s OK…
So did I – for all the ‘bleeding obvious’ advice that Shak gives us!
Because greedy stupid people will do anything for easy money
I sent them a photo of my junk.
Imagine falling for this haha, fortunately in a few weeks I’ll have no money worries as I’ve won the Nigerian lotto, a cool 14 million will be coming soon, done the paperwork, send off my details and the money needed to complete the transfer. See ye Ireland wish me luck.
You would want to be a right ejeet to fall for that these days
I consider everything from E.I. a scam, in particular what’s in the envelopes that come through my letterbox.
I got an email from revenue this morning saying the tax man owed me money… Sure I never paid tax in my life!!!!!!
I got also from Revenue 3 days ago…
I’m a former Electric Ireland customer and received and deleted one of those phishing emails this morning, so some aspect of Electric Ireland’s customer database must have been accessed?
I figured something was a bit “phishy” when I got this earlier on seeing as we haven’t been with them in years and the refund was for this month
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