...it's only Facebook.

I thought it might be important.

IMHO, if you are a Facebook (et al) user, you are already owned by the spamz!

PratWest.

Checking my account online yesterday to be greeted with a message that they want to stop ending me statements in he post, and instead send me an email to let me know to go online to check my statements... They just don't get it.

"That's because Facebook is one bigger targets of phishers."

I've read this sentence a Several of times and still have no idea what it means.

Sage have just sent out an email about the VAT rate changes, asking people to click on one of two links for more information. Worse still, the links don't even go to a Sage URL. They go to ones at ukimages.images11.com, which then redirect to locations at www.sage.co.uk - an invitation to get filtered out as a phishing attack!

I've been repeatedly warned by Lloyds TSB that they've sent me no genuine emails in the last three weeks, as they seem to be having something of a spam storm.

So on receiving spam from Lloyds TSB PrivacyGuard, I duly reported it - and got politely told to bog off because that one was genuine, although it was from a sister company.

Frankly, if a FRAUD PREVENTION unit of my bank - whether a direct report or a trading partner is sending out suspiciously phishy emails when they're telling me they're not... time to break out the LARTS in their security department?

(That'd be the perfect way of doing it just too... "hey, tovarisch, you can have all your details protected in proper Siberian salt mine- just tell us them all and sign up now at LTSB.RUSSIAN.BIZ.NET..." It's irony on a basic level, but I'd get a hoot out of it)

Paris justification: she knows all about privacy issues.

I'm enjoying not receiving the notifications, so I'd not be clicking the link!!