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donga
Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 272
Message Posted:
15/10/2009 08:42 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 8 in Discussion |
| had 2 FAKE emails in the last 12 hours from Abbey online banking & Nationwide building society asking me to login from a link provided in the email.
How do I know they are fake ?? I don't bank with either !!!
As far as I am aware, a bank will never contact you by email regarding passwords etc so be warned
Hope this saves someone some potential hassle |
negativenick
Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023
Message Posted:
15/10/2009 08:46 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 8 in Discussion |
| been doing the rounds for years..... |
Earlybird
Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816
Message Posted:
15/10/2009 14:00 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 8 in Discussion |
| Nationswide did send out their first email a while back, full of useful information but emphasised that they would never ask for any details online via an email. |
Coachie
Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135
Message Posted:
15/10/2009 18:47 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 4 of 8 in Discussion |
| Early bird..Quite correct.Just had an email from my bank stating exactly that.
donga ..had the same 2 emails,got the red cross treatment very rapidly... |
DutchCrusader
Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281
Message Posted:
15/10/2009 21:42 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 8 in Discussion |
| RE msg 1, donga: (...) How do I know they are fake ?? I don't bank with either !!! (...)
=> Wrong. Your software (anti-virus-etc) should have intercepted the email as "spam" before you had to think about it (and maybe would have been too naive, ignorant etc). Do nice, decent people never learn..?!
P.S. No, (--- pedantic now, again ---  ---) "nice, decent people" never learn. Every 1.000.000 spam emails (or any other fake) pay off for the scammers. Sigh. |
donga
Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 272
Message Posted:
16/10/2009 17:14 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 6 of 8 in Discussion |
| --------------------------------> Dutch Crusader / message 5
"wrong" ??............. not quite.
My software did "intercept" it & put it straight into my "junk" folder but the curiosity got the better of me so I had to see what they were up to. |
Bigcheese
Joined: 12/01/2009
Posts: 51
Message Posted:
19/10/2009 11:06 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 7 of 8 in Discussion |
| I've received these as well. If you go onto Abbey's website, there is information on reporting scams. Send a copy of the email to them. |
griffin9870
Joined: 01/03/2009
Posts: 92
Message Posted:
19/10/2009 16:22 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 8 of 8 in Discussion |
| Just to let you know there is a Halifax one going round as well. I know this because I got one sent to me yesterday. |
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