Fraudulent visa emails - A heads up

[Dorza]

Ok, in the last month I have had two emails claiming to be from paymentsupport@ visa.com. The emails are identical and they explain that I have supposedly spent a certain amount of money online (which i have not I don't even own a visa card) and then says that my card authorization has been enhanced and that I the customer has to pay for the security upgrade lmfao how they try. They even bundle a nice little attachment with it. Theres kind of them.

Anyway after being slightly suspicious the first time I ignored the email and deleted it however after getting it a second time I decided to do some digging on visas website and low and behold I found the flowing warning: Here

So I thought I should let the goold ole folk of hexus know about it, if they didn't already. For any one who might be interested I've posted the email below

Dear Client,

This message has been sent automatically by the Visa Security Program to this e-mail address
specified
during your credit card online transaction. For safety reasons your credit card details are not
shown in
this message.

ALERT
Your level of credit card authorization has been automatically modified during your last online
transaction of GBP ###.## to increase your account security. The charge for this service is GBP
29.00.
Please confirm or cancel this operation through Visa Online Administration Panel. It is strongly
recommended for you to increase your account security, as we could not identify the user during
the last
transaction. For further details on the transaction please see the attachment.

If you believe this has been the case of unauthorized use of your credit card please report this
immediately to Verified by Visa and protect your Visa card online with a personal password. Visa
provides
reassurance that only you can use your Visa card online.


Regards
Verified By VISA

Learn more about the benefits of Verified by Visa h ttp://www.visaeurope.com/promotion/vbv/uk

[BlindMelon7]

Lol, they wont get many people with that, its pretty unprofesional. thanks for the warning though.

[Tarffie]

Get those all the time. Usually Paypal rather than VISA though.

[Craig321]

Got one of these earlier. Weird... NOD32 didn't pick up the attachment as a virus.

Dorza, may I ask why you blocked out the part that said GBP 245.72 lol?

Craig.

[Tarffie]

Probably because it's not always the same. My most recent one was £346.34

[Craig321]

Probably because it's not always the same. My most recent one was £346.34

Oh right, it's a random number anyways... got nothing to do with you personally

[Funkstar]

i get these sorts of things a lot, but they are usually on an email account in *only* use for mailing lists