Looks like I got something unexpected from the Roaring Season.

[GPBK]

I'm not a frequent visitor anymore to RS but in the last week I have been getting a warning telling me that the RS Site is subject to "Phishing" and I am given the option to ignore and proceed to the site or cancel and not proceed.

I use a Mac at home where I get the message. I use Windows 10 at work and do not get it.

I waited a few days to see if the message would go but it persists so I eventually opted to come to RS because I knew this thread had been going for a while and wanted to see if anyone else was having similar experiences.

Last night, a day or so after going on the RS I received a message from Vodafone ( supposedly ) my ISP informing me that there had been an unauthorised attempt at accessing my Webmail account from France and to click on the link to access my webmail to check settings.

I was very suspicious of this to say the least, the link took me to a webpage which looks exactly like VFs webmail page login but I knew from the link address this was not genuine and did not go any further.

I write this only as a FYI exercise. The Phishing warning persists and the email supposedly from VF looks to be exactly that, a phishing attempt to get my details.

I can't say for sure whether accessing the RS led to me getting the email but I get no spam and have seldom if ever got such things so the timing would have to be a huge co-incidence for the two not to be related.

[928]

gpbk, i am getting the same message using firefox on an old laptop running vista. donot know enough to get rid of it without the complicated picture sight

[ERC]

I waited a few days to see if the message would go but it persists so I eventually opted to come to RS because I knew this thread had been going for a while and wanted to see if anyone else was having similar experiences.

I can't say for sure whether accessing the RS led to me getting the email but I get no spam and have seldom if ever got such things so the timing would have to be a huge co-incidence for the two not to be related.

Methinks this may be more than a coincidence too.

I was on the phone to my ISP yesterday (I know them well) and was told that a lot of the Chinese spam that has been hitting one of my addresses is because the Chinese government apparently pays people to phish, hack and spam.

I have deleted one of my email addresses totally and am about to delete another, but it is a slow process going into the various company sites, banking, message boards, computer software, magazine subscriptions, travel, Government sites etc., just to change the contact details.

Some are easy, some are diabolical, but I couldn't see any alternative.

I certainly won't be posting any more pics on here until there is a guarantee that all is well.