nik52wrx

A couple of days ago i received an email informing me my Abbey National bank account had failed attempts to log in, thing is i don't bank with Abbey. Today i have received an email saying my online Halifax account has been frozen due to failed attempts to log in. Although i do have a savings acount with them its never been set up for online use. The email asked me to click on a link (halifax.co.uk) to rectify the problem, i deleted the email as i assumed clicking the link might trigger something.
Anyone out there had a similar experiance?

Scooby Soon!

is this a joke

nie

as above

nik52wrx

Apparent attempts to get into bank accounts is no joke.

douglasb

Yes.

Your bank will never contact you by email to ask you to re-enter personal details.

I've had similar emails from banks that I bank with and banks that I don't asking for these details. I quite happily follow the links and put in some details, but unless anyone out there has the account number 666 and a password of "F*** Off And Die you Spamming C***" nobody has to worry.

madscoob

iTrader: (3)

as above have had 3 plus 1 from inland rev stating i was entitled to a 287.50refund are people thick enough to reply to these i looked and was asked for all banking details including password acc no sortcode and 3didgit security number lmfao at em just reply with a load of nads details. better still if you know your local mps details ie you work in a shop and he/she have been in put thier details in

Jaybird-UK

Dont go on the internet its full of crooks!

nik52wrx

Just phoned the Halifax and indeed its a fraud attempt.
They never email regarding such matters so some low life is trying it on

mrtheedge2u2

I think this scam was first tried by Methuselah. Did you honestly think it was a genuine mail??????

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

The reason people are asking if it is a joke is in reference to your post, not as to what it is about.

Phishing scams such as this are very well known, and while you may not know about them; a lot of people do. Hence the comments.

If you get any more like this, just delete them, but if you want to know more details hover you rmouse over the link and look at where it will send you to. You can easily hide a REAL address behind a false one.

A very very simple way of catching these is to accept all emails as plain text only and they will show the REAL URLs in the mail.

David_Dickson

This is the only kind of spam I get now - every single day will yield at least 5 emails from various banks asking me to log in to check fraud attempts or reactivate my pin or similar.

greatgonzo

iTrader: (1)

Really I'm shocked this happens this much, I Internet bank and do a lot other transaction over the net but its only happened once to me, it was a fake PayPal thing .

RJMS

iTrader: (2)

Apart from the fact that if the link was in any way personalised your email address will be marked as being "live" and you may well get even more spam as a result - not a big problem I admit but a pain none the less.

jonc

Well I had a email from a lawyer to say that someone no dependents passed away and had left millions in their bank account and asked whether I would act as the dependent. It would mean I would have a share of those millions. All I had to do was forward them my bank details to make the transfer and also a couple of thousands to cover the admin and transfer fees. I jumped at this chance. I'm still waiting but should be getting my millions any day now................

Aaron1978

iTrader: (12)

This can't be true, i've been waiting on replys from several different emails from various accounts in China, USA and Nigeria totalling $11.4m. When i receive these Payments then i'll be back on here to laugh at your claims of dodgy emails.

A soon to be rich Aaron

rifleman

i had the same e-mail before xmas from abbey even though i dont bank with them.was in town the next day and went into abbey and told them and the reply was 'dont worry about it there are over 100,000 fake e-mails going round at the moment.just delete it.
they are trying their luck and sending random ones out in the hope someone has an account with that bank and logs in.then they have your details.
was rather surprised at how nonchillant(think thats how its spelt)the banks are about this.