Be very cautious if you get an email perporting to be from your bank

judyr


Joined: 07/07/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 11:16

I received an email last week from LLoyds and it looked every bit to be genuine with all the usual insurance, want a loan, second account etc links. only obviously the links did not work. The email stressed it was urgent to fill in the form to contact the bank because they believed I was abroad and if they did not hear from me they would suspend my account until I could call into my branch to verify a few points. Yes it was a phishing email but it did look very real. Have just received another from Natwest this morning with whom I do not bank so be on your guard. These new emails do indeed look very real!

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 11:17

We too have received these emails, from banks we do not bank with regarding our on line banking accounts.....!

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 11:33

It is a general rule that banks do not ask for details, otherwise its a scam.

ismet

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 11:46

In the last three weeks I have had scam Emails from Lloyds, the Co-operative bank, HSBC and Egg. Three were pretty good reproductions of the real thing, however, the HSBC effort was absolutely hillarious. No HSBC logo, no nothing. Just five queries about confirming my account details. BTW, I don't bank with any of them.



LD

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 11:47

Sorry the above should read Tango1. Not concentrating and used my initials - silly me!!



Tango1

flossie44


Joined: 05/03/2009
Posts: 223

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 14:34

I have received loads of these scam E Mails recently and also one from the Inland Revenue saying I was due a refund. Again a scam so do not respond.



flossie

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 15:06

Judith Msg 1 -If you have tried the links I suggest that you wiould do well to run your anti-virus on a full check. Also I would run something like superantispyware or spybot to make sure that they are not tracking you.

Sometimes just opening these scam mails and trying the links on them is a little dangerous for your computer security.

As a rule just delete.

Glasbury


Joined: 13/08/2010
Posts: 268

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 18:26

I have also received lots of these email from every bank you can think of and the Inland Revenue. I just delete them straight away and ignore them.

jimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
12/04/2011 18:44

It's known as 'phishing' - I forward them on to the Banks concerned - all of whom have a department which investigates these scams.