Fraudsters Are Targeting Wonga Customers
I have never used Wonga and I never will, but I received this e-mail supposedly from them this morning.
Customer Satisfaction Survey 2013
At Wonga.com, we sincerely value your opinions.
As part of our continuous improvement process, we’re conducting a survey to benchmark the opinions of our customers.We will use the resulting information to better serve the needs of our customers.
We kindly ask you to take part in our quick and easy 3 questions customer survey. In return, we won’t charge you ANY INTEREST on your next loan application!
Here is how you proceed:
• Download your personal survey attached to this email.
• Select the desired answers on your survey.
• Log in to your Wonga.com account to validate your survey.
We thank you in advance for your time and effort in making Wonga the best payday lender in the United Kingdom.Sincerely,
Wonga.com Customer Service
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I wasn’t sure if it was phishing spam or something from the company, which has used one of my e-mail addresses.
So I did what you should always do with this type of message and used Google to search for “Wonga 2013 2013 customer satisfaction survey”
I found this page. So it’s a phish and of course fraudulent!
In some ways it’s rather ironic, that a rather dodgy company in my view, is being used as a hook by criminals to get mugs for their frauds.
The Anonymous Widower 
Thanks for posting this – I received the same email yesterday and I found your blog before the page you found with Google. I’ve forwarded the email to Wonga asking them to confirm that they didn’t send it out..I’m sure they already know about this but hope they will alert all their existing customers to the scam, if they haven;t already done so.
Comment by SteveL | February 1, 2013 |
No problem! I’m glad to be of some assistance.
Add another comment, if you get a reply from Wonga. So many companies don’t take a serious view of this type of activity and that is one of the reasons the scams multiply.
Incidentally, I’ve just looked at your Mr. Handy web site. We need that sort of service in N1. I did see a guy doing it a year or so ago, who had a special tool-box that he took on the buses, but I didn’t jot his number down. You have a good concept there.
Comment by AnonW | February 1, 2013 |