Increase in phishing emails supposedly from BT

In the past few months I've noticed that I am getting more & more phishing emails pretending to be from BT.
They are all going to an email account that I don't use anymore (but what I used to set up my internet with originally) but have forwarded to my current email address
So there were a lot of BT Yahoo classic is closing ones, update your email, even had ones pretending that my bill was ready
I reported one with the ebilling on it and BT kindly forced me to change my password as "my account has been compromised" (er no it hasn't).  So I'm reluctant to report any more.
I'm just not sure what to do about them.  I obviously don't want genuine bt emails to go to the trash. 

There are many phishing emails from BT doing the rounds no doubt trying to catch people out because of the forthcoming migration from Yahoo to Critical Path.
If you hover your mouse over the senders email address it will show you where it came from and if you hover your mouse over any links you will see where the link will take you.
Basically BT will not ask you to confirm any passwords, usernames or account details or verify accounts via links in an email. If you want to verify or change any of those, do it by going to the BT website via your web browser and not by clicking on links in emails.
If in any doubt about an email, delete it.
See link for details about phishing emails.
 http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9191/~/what-is-phishing%3F-is-the-email-i-have-receiv...

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