Suspicious email from bank

[charitynjw]

I recently received this email.
(As I don't have a NatWest account, even I would smell a rat!)

Dear NatWest Customer,

This is an automatic message by the system to let you know that

your account has been restricted due to a second party log on.

Click Here To Lift Restriction

NatWest Online Banking

NatWest 2013©


A bit of surfing unearthed this (different bank stated, but similar content)


http://www.uaware.org.uk/page9.htm

Originator : Virgin Money Subject : Account Notification Content :
Dear Customer,
This is an automatic message by the system to let you know that your account has been
Restricted from online banking due to third party log in from an unknown ISP .
Note: Download The Attached File To Lift Restriction.
Virgin Money©.2012

Comment : No named recipient. Attachment probably contains malicious software. The originators e-mail address indicated that the sender maybe registered in Norway, but not necessarily domicile there !
Dated : 16th November 2012

Binned!

[ostell]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

This is a well known phishing message. Delete.

Or if it is a link to a forged copy of the real web site then fill in the form with rubbish data and rude data. Keep 'em busy thinking they have pulled in a punter.

[Eloise01]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

I get these e-mails regularly. Amongst my favourites are the ones from banks that don't even have UK branches! However, there is a serious note on this issue - some of these e-mails are not as obviously false. A couple of times I have had ones from "my bank" that really looked like the genuine article - very, very cleverly constructed and extremely convincing looking. Only the fact that (a) I know for a fact that my bank never e-mail customers, and (b) my exceptionally good protection software alerted them as false gave away the game. But it would have been really easy to fall for it - and many people do.

[wales01man]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

I have one rule for Emails im not sure of
When in Doubt Click it OUT
Dont chance it

[charitynjw]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

They wouldn't get any money from me - I've lent it all to that nice Nigerian chap who is promising to give me a fortune when he sorts his financial glitch.

:doh:

[wales01man]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

i must add i always respond to emails informing me i have won money on lotteries so far i have collected 700 million quid i just cant be bothered to cash the cheques

[CleverClogs]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

I get these e-mails regularly.

Lucky you. I've not received any for years.

Amongst my favourites are the ones from banks that don't even have UK branches! However, there is a serious note on this issue - some of these e-mails are not as obviously false. A couple of times I have had ones from "my bank" that really looked like the genuine article - very, very cleverly constructed and extremely convincing looking.

Indeed. The "tax refund" site I accessed - and, knowing it to be fake, to which I submitted impossible data such as a birth date of 31 April 1966 - looked quite convincing until it asked for one's Zip Code.

Only the fact that (a) I know for a fact that my bank never e-mail customers, and (b) my exceptionally good protection software alerted them as false gave away the game. But it would have been really easy to fall for it - and many people do.

How?

Don't they bother to read the URL in the browser address bar?

[messimoo]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

In the past I have had several E mails from the New York Police department stating I had been caught and fined exceeding the speed limit. Blimey Mr D's Mondy must have been suoercharged LOL

[ruthie59]

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I received a similar message yesterday from Santander with whom I have never held an account. I contacted them and forwarded it to the appropriate department to deal with. The message looked so convincing that I guess some people would be taken in.

[Eloise01]

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They wouldn't get any money from me - I've lent it all to that nice Nigerian chap who is promising to give me a fortune when he sorts his financial glitch.

:doh:

I'm afraid that some people are so gullible it beggers belief anyway! I recall several years ago a graduate on placement with me received one of the "you have won £5 million, just send us all your bank details..." e-mails. He asked me whether I thought it was for real, and after recovering from the shock of anyone asking such a stupid question, I explained to him in very graphic detail why is was not for real and what would happen if he sent his bank details. So what did he do after this? Yes, he decided that he would send his bank details to get his £5million
winnings!!!! Some people are so stupid they deserve what happens to them...

[CleverClogs]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

Some people are so stupid they deserve what happens to them...

Matthew 7, vv 1-5. (link)

[wales01man]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

And we think graduates are clever?

[CleverClogs]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

And we think graduates are clever?

Or that barristers are persuasive?

[MDfrance]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

I used to give them the Inland Revenue bank payment details. Fat chance of them squeezing anything out of that account.

Something else, it just goes to show a single email address can be more trouble than it's worth.

Apart from the jokes, You can't expect your newbie Gran to understand that these aren't real people especially when she has a Natwest account, or Santander, or RBS or Lloyds or Barclays or any other bank offering similar products and is subject to being used in scams

[ODC]

Re: Suspicious email from bank

I tend to give them details that the DCAs print on their begging letters when they demand I complete a DD to pay some non enforceable debt