Fraud warning - o2 christmas shopping

Stark

Got this in my e-mail today and it was quite convincing so I thought I'd better post it as a warning to people who don't look as closely at these things as me It's a fake and those www.o2.ie and www.awear.ie links actually send you to a fake website which will no doubt steal your credit card details and leave you nicely indebted for Christmas.

aidan_walsh

Cheers.

Mimikyu

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Stark

Well it came from o2.com which is suspicious as it should have come from o2.ie. And if you hover over the links www.o2.ie and www.awear.ie you'll see they point to a completely different site.

kinkstr

got that email today aswell,cheers for the warning

BuffyBot

Well O2.com does belong to O2 - are you sure when you hover over the links they aren't just showing an address for a click-through measuring site?

I'd recommend checking with O2, as it could be a fraud, but on the other hand it might be genuine...

monkeyfudge

It doesn't matter if it's really O2 or not... O2 themselves are huge scammers... I HATE THEM SO MUCH... I just don't bother changing network as I don't really think Vodaphone or Meteor would be any better... but they've really screwed me over several times this year... so I'm at my wits end...

viking

monkeyfudge wrote:

I just don't bother changing network as I don't really think Vodaphone or Meteor would be any better... but they've really screwed me over several times this year... so I'm at my wits end...

If you are an O2 bill customer, ring them and tell them you are considering switching to Vodafone (for whatever reason) and you'll be put through to a different department.

The person will then offer you a reduction of 25% on your line rental if you commit for a further year OR 25% without any commitment for 6 months.

Something for nothing...

Viking

tinkerbell

I got that email too. But actually, on comparing them, yah yours seems to be fake!

My one has the A-Wear thing on it as well but tiz actually for a competition "Win a Motorola camera phone from O2". And the A-Wear link on it is "buy an a|wear gift card at www.awear.ie & win one of 5 Motorola camera phones from O2". The links are all valid in my one, coz I just checked them. It says nothing about Christmas shopping - a gift for her / a gift for him. So I'd say the email you got is probably fake!

tinkerbell

viking wrote:

If you are an O2 bill customer, ring them and tell them you are considering switching to Vodafone (for whatever reason) and you'll be put through to a different department.

The person will then offer you a reduction of 25% on your line rental if you commit for a further year OR 25% without any commitment for 6 months.

Something similar happened to my mom when she wanted to upgrade her phone. My dad's a business customer and his phone broke and he needed a new phone, but his upgrade wasn't up. My mom had her phone for over 12 months but Vodafone told her that no way was she getting an upgrade.

Her response was "okay then! If that's the way you're gonna be, I'm here in Vodafone on Henry St. and O2 is right next door. If you don't give me the upgrade I'm looking for, I will be switching to O2, and bringing my husband with me!"

They changed their tune fairly sharpish once they took a look at my dad's account and offered her an upgrade straight away!

hohohohoho

cormie

tinkerbell wrote:

Something similar happened to my mom when she wanted to upgrade her phone. My dad's a business customer and his phone broke and he needed a new phone, but his upgrade wasn't up. My mom had her phone for over 12 months but Vodafone told her that no way was she getting an upgrade.

Her response was "okay then! If that's the way you're gonna be, I'm here in Vodafone on Henry St. and O2 is right next door. If you don't give me the upgrade I'm looking for, I will be switching to O2, and bringing my husband with me!"

They changed their tune fairly sharpish once they took a look at my dad's account and offered her an upgrade straight away!

hohohohoho

I love hearing stories like that! Power to the people! Eircom are trying to buy us back from UTV, they sent us a new portable phone and only charged us for delivery yesterday.

dahamsta

tinkerbell wrote:

I got that email too. But actually, on comparing them, yah yours seems to be fake!

I'd be very surprised if it was. Irish scammers aren't that sophisticated, and I don't believe international scammers have gone that localised yet. More importantly, I hope the thread starter reported the apparent issue to the companies involved before posting here.

Stark, post the source code of the email please. As someone has already suggested, it's much more likely that the links are just click-trackers used by the marketing agency that's running the campaign (clearly marked in the email).

adam

mobilemetal

Hi,

I actually rang O2 and it's a real campaign!! It's being advertised on the free web text page aswell - if you click through from there you get to the following awear site - http://www.awear.ie/info/index.php

The offer is clearly there on a-ware's homepage.

Stark

Stark, post the source code of the email please. As someone has already suggested, it's much more likely that the links are just click-trackers used by the marketing agency that's running the campaign (clearly marked in the email).

Okay I clicked on the links (risky move as far as I was concerned as I risked adding my e-mail to the "active" database), they follow through to o2.ie and awear.ie alright, no hidden snags. Silly me. The follow-through company still looks dodgy though (nw2d.com) and I can't find any info on them. But like you said I assume that spammers aren't that sophisticated (I mean most of them can barely figure out that big purple letters turns people off them). International spammers are highly sophisticated that way but like you said they haven't become localised. So I'll just presume that oops I was wrong, oh dear I may have tarnished o2's reputation (well okay it's not keeping me awake at night). :rolleyes:

Maximilian

Yeah, its clearly a fake alright - none of the links work and the page only takes up about 1/3 of the top left of the screen