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MaxM
Investigator
Investigator

Got an e-mail today from "[email protected]", addressed to "Hi, We're sorry we have spotted that you have been undercharged...... etc". Immediately raised my suspicions as my formal first name is normally used. Secondly, e-m from EE come from "[email protected]" NOT "[email protected]". Lastly, it claimed I owed £7 a month for 3 months underpayment of my Netflix Premium sub. (Don't have Premium Netflix, and when I checked my account on my app my last 12 bills were spot-on correct) I was to log in using a link supplied to check my account. So 3 alerts there...I imagine the website is fake and they would just read my username and password and be able to access my account themselves for whatever reason. Beware of [email protected]

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MaxM
Investigator
Investigator

It is a fraudulent e-mail, I phoned to check my sub person to person and if there are changes. No changes expected / due, so e-mail def a scam

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XRaySpeX
EE Community Star
EE Community Star

You are contradicting yourself making it difficult for us to decide:


 wrote:

Got an e-mail today from "[email protected].uk"

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Secondly, e-m from EE come from "[email protected]" NOT "[email protected].ik"

So is it 'uk' or 'ik'? If the latter, it is definitely not from EE. Or is it just a typo?

Does it have a link in it that it tells you to click? Don't go there but what was the link?

Report spam emails to EE by forwarding the email to [email protected] .

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MaxM
Investigator
Investigator

Apologies, "uk", def not "ik" or I wouldn't have received it. Def typo on my part....

Link was to "ee.co.uk/go/login"

XRaySpeX
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EE Community Star

Then it looks valid. There is another user that has received a similar email : EE Subscription

If you think I helped please feel free to hit the "Thumbs Up" button below.

To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Home Broadband & Home Phone or Option 2 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband

ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP
MaxM
Investigator
Investigator

It is a fraudulent e-mail, I phoned to check my sub person to person and if there are changes. No changes expected / due, so e-mail def a scam

I got the exact same email 5 days ago about an underpayment for broadband, i contacted EE directly and they confirmed it was a scam. I was suspicious right away because i dont have EE broadband, but the email looked so real.

It’s not fraudulent. I got the email in May. I got charged this month. Never upgraded my standard subscription, never used the account from when I subscribed to EE TV a year and a half ago because it had adverts. It was included in the monthly price. I logged into a seperate premium account on the EE TV box, which is paid for directly to Netflix.  I rang in May, my account showed a standard subscription. The representative I spoke to stated it was a spam email nothing was showing on my account and they knew nothing about  it. Said I wouldn’t be charged. I  spent an hour on the phone today trying to get around the charges. Got told that EE reps have been told not to refund the charges. Pure fraud. 

Batts1991
Explorer

Did you get charged this month? 

Michael_D
EE Community Support Team

Hi @Batts1991 

I am sorry that you were initially told that it was not genuine.

If you are not happy with the outcome of your call yesterday, you can raise a complaint to discuss this further.

Michael