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Warning to TalkTalk Users
A pop up window on some websites has
been displaying what looks like a legitimate survey for the firm, but appears to
be brand new phishing attempt. The advert window pops up, often behind your
browser window, but shows up when you close you come to close your windows or
tabs. It displays your IP address and identifies your IP as TalkTalk, but we are
told it can do this with other Service Providers as well.
Pages like these sometimes mirror the look and
layout of the service provider's website, when you are asks you to fill in
questions about the service they provide. "This is a new trick, but on a
very common theme." TalkTalk Technical support told us. In this
case the suspected sites shows your Internet Provider, IP address and also
refers to your service provider in some form that makes it appear that it could
be your service provider.
Please note that on the
photos we have smudged some information for security reasons.
Often what you find out is that once you
finished the survey, in this case, it asks you if you want to enter a kind of
prize draw, and this is when the interesting thing happens. Others forms can
then also ask your for your contact information, as in phone number and address.
These sites asks you to make a payment to
enter for a variety of gift draws. "Never fill in or give your details out
on any site that says you have been randomly selected to give feedback,
especially if you are then asked to add your credit card information or contact
information. If you get 1 of these pop ups, please make a note of the sites you
have been on, also take a screen shot of the pop up, then copy the URL the popup
is displaying. Then please contact us and/or
Action Fraud and report it. Action Fraud is the UK's national
fraud and internet crime reporting centre. That way we can track and stop these
types of thing happening to our customers." said TalkTalk's Technical
Support Team to us.
Please also report it to us as well, via:-
news24@southportreporter.com as we are interested to find out how
wide spread this is.
We can not confirm that the sites these links
come from or the survey itself is a not legitimate, but we strongly advise our
readers:- "If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, swims like a duck
and walks like a duck, then you can make the logical connection that it is a
duck!"
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