screwfix.com phishing email ??

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screwfix.com phishing email ??

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just had an email supposedly from screwfix saying that you can now login using your email address. the email does look very pro. but the links look very suspect to me

just wondering if anyone else has had this email




The mail origanated from a
email.screwfix-direct.co.uk Domain

Important Customer Service Announcement from Screwfix.com

Dear Customer,

In response to your feedback we have been making some improvements to our website. We've simplified things so that you will now be able to log into screwfix.com using your email address.


Logging in is as easy as 1 2 3 :
1 Visit http:// Removed

2 Log in using your email address.

3 Continue to shop as normal.

If you have any concerns or feedback, call us on 01935 385791.
Alternatively, you can email us on Removed

Interested in being the first to hear about sales, deals & offers?
Subscribe to our emails here.

most of the links go to this domain: .profusion.com
Last edited by Bob225 on Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: screwfix.com phishing email ??

Post by dave.m »

Flash,
Just checked all my emails and not got one from S/Fix.

Edit:
Have just read the edited post above.

Have you completed an online survey from their website in the past?

Profusion is an e-market research company that may have run a survey for S/F and are just following it up

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pasted and edited. no iam not on there forums just seems iffy to me (click me and enter your detail sort of thing)

edit. haven't filled in any surveys at all
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I am certain that you do not have any infection on your computer and at the very worst, it was just a phishing email.
But, if you completed a survey sometime ago, or purchasded something from the web site, it will just be a followup.
I get similar emails occassionally from a company that do online surveys for HP (Hewlet Packard, not the sauce). Sometimes they are from HP and others are from the market research company asking if the HP site has improved since I was last surveyed.

Just delete it and forget it.

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just done some digging and the actual s/f link redirects via an online mail service [sfx-promail.profusion.c)m]

The pc is clean, full format and reinstall 4-5 days ago
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Post by mikew1972 »

I also got that email from screwfix. ....or someone pretending to be screwfix, I don't know?
Didn't reply, didn't do asnything different from normal and screwfix still reconises me.
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