WARNING - VA Phishing email

[wayneg]

Many people, including myself, seem to be recieving an email this morning from "Virgin Atlantic Flying Club [Flyingclub@virginatlantic-email.co.uk]"
looks ok but its not your account number or miles.

From VA site

EMAIL PHISHING SCAMS
It has been brought to our attention that passengers and members of the public have been receiving email communications that use the Virgin Atlantic Airways name and logo, or otherwise purport to be from Virgin Atlantic Airways. The emails ask for personal information and in some cases, money.

Virgin Atlantic Airways can confirm that it is not associated with these rogue communications in any way. They are fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information and in some cases, money.

DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE EMAILS IF YOU RECEIVE ONE.

Virgin Atlantic Airways will never ask any of our passengers for personal information by email.

 

[taylor91]

Thanks Wayne...I've just looked in my email account and seen one of these...sent it to my junk folder

 

[2Tiggies]

Cheers Wayne. Fortunately hadn't bothered to open mine yet, but it's now happily in the deleted folder

 

[ChipnDaleRule]

Read this too late, i opened it but didnt log on as asked. Hope im ok.

 

[wayneg]

Some could be genuine but mine wasn't. Membership number totally wrong but the miles although wrong were very close.

 

[wayneg]

Read this too late, i opened it but didnt log on as asked. Hope im ok.

Exactly what I did but as long as you didn't enter any details you should be OK.

 

[osmonty]

Seen this on the dibb earlier. Not had any emails yet

 

[irenep]

I got an email from the VA FC today - it was headed {No SUBJECT} and no proper graphics so I immediately though it a bit dodgy however my membership number and airmiles balance are right so was this phishing? - and if it is how did they get all that info?
I deleted it just in case.

 

[2Tiggies]

I got an email from the VA FC today - it was headed {No SUBJECT} and no proper graphics so I immediately though it a bit dodgy however my membership number and airmiles balance are right so was this phishing? - and if it is how did they get all that info?
I deleted it just in case.

I got one this morning and then another in the last half hour. I don't know my membership details off the top of my head so had no way of knowing whether they are accurate or not. It is possible that one of them may have been legit. but not worth the risk so I deleted both - thanks to the heads up posted here.

 

[orangetiggs]

i had it read it and deleted it!

 

[Netty]

I got an email from the VA FC today - it was headed {No SUBJECT} and no proper graphics so I immediately though it a bit dodgy however my membership number and airmiles balance are right so was this phishing? - and if it is how did they get all that info?
I deleted it just in case.

same here, i spammed it just incase it wasn't genuine

 

[crabbie1]

BinnedThanks wayne

 

[Chilly]

I got an email from the VA FC today - it was headed {No SUBJECT} and no proper graphics so I immediately though it a bit dodgy however my membership number and airmiles balance are right so was this phishing? - and if it is how did they get all that info?
I deleted it just in case.

same here, i spammed it just incase it wasn't genuine

I got that one as well. I just deleted it.

 

[wayneg]

Received another email now so maybe it wasn't a scam, just an error.

18/05/2011
Our apologies

Dear Member,

We are writing to inform you that the blank email you received this morning was unfortunately sent in error. We are looking into this issue with our supplier as a matter of urgency. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Kind regards,

The Flying Club team

 

[Zeebs]

Received another email now so maybe it wasn't a scam, just an error.

18/05/2011
Our apologies

Dear Member,

We are writing to inform you that the blank email you received this morning was unfortunately sent in error. We are looking into this issue with our supplier as a matter of urgency. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Kind regards,

The Flying Club team

I got this one, but not the blank one, I did get the check in on line one though and linked through from that, so hopefully I haven't done anything to compromise my security.

Kirsten

 

[2Tiggies]

I got this one, but not the blank one, I did get the check in on line one though and linked through from that, so hopefully I haven't done anything to compromise my security.

Kirsten

The trouble with the apology, which I also got, is how do we know that even that is a genuine Virgin email That is what is so terribly annoying with these things. I suppose I will just delete their apology too.

 

[Zeebs]

The trouble with the apology, which I also got, is how do we know that even that is a genuine Virgin email That is what is so terribly annoying with these things. I suppose I will just delete their apology too.

I have deleted them. But I did laugh as on the apology it did say this real email from Virgin or something to that effect. How hard is it to put that line on your fake email.

Kirsten

 

[Chilly]

I've had the apology as well.

 

[ChipnDaleRule]

I think that might be fake too, because usually when i get Flying Club emails i get two, one for me and one for my husband, but these email i only get one for me