Stay Safe Online – BT scam emails

Stay Safe Online – BT emails and other scams to watch out for

URGENT ALERT Make sure your Windows PC is up-to-date as Microsoft are constantly having to send out security patches to fix vulnerabilities that are being exploited by scammers.

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BT will be changing – they will be moving all their customers from the old analogue public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a fully digital network before Openreach stop the PSTN (and ISDN) service in 2025. More information here:  https://business.bt.com/insights/digital-transformation/uk-pstn-switch-off/

Work has started and scammers have taken advantage and are sending out emails like this one – but you can see it’s a scam by hovering over the link – which is nothing to do with BT.

BT scam email

What you should do – forward the email to and then delete it.  As at 30th September 2021 they have received more than 7,700,000 scam reports with the removal of more than 64,000 scams and 119,000 URLs.

You can also find out how to avoid different types of scam at bt.com/scams. The site is written in partnership with Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and internet crime:

Sign up here for Which? Scam alerts direct to your inbox:

https://campaigns.which.co.uk/scam-alert-service/

Find details of recent scams here: www.actionfraud.police.uk and on our Facebook page:
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