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  • 17-10-2006 6:09pm
    #1
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭


    This in their email today?
    This Message is reaching you from Alliance & Leicester Plc.
    Notice to all our customers.
    We apologies for inconvenience issues against our customer’s accounts.
    We are protecting all our customer's account against fraudulent issue and money laundering on our SSL secure server.
    To access security protection against fraudulent issues, you are to click on our link below.
    To review your account for our new Alliance-Leicester standard account security access against fraudsters.


    WARNING.
    Watch around your environment.
    And feel in your full account information carefully and correctly.
    Please it's important for your standard account security against fraudulent.
    Thanks for your support.
    mybank.alliance-leicester.co.uk/ account_security/index.asp

    The format was actually rather convincing at a glance, which you cant really see here, until you read the actual words lol.
    Other problem is, lol, I am not with A&L and never have been! ;)

    B


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  • #2
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,353 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Looks like spam, an attempt to gain personal information for ID theft, a potential fraud, or a way to load malware when you click the link?


  • #3
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    The more important question is surely did anyone else get yore ma in their email today?

    Anywho, what does the link take you to? I'm assuming it's a "to view your account, please enter your cc number, pin, account number etc. etc.
    Got one myself but deleted it, ain't with them either.


  • #4
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭FranknFurter


    yeah, 'tis (thats why I dint post the entire link).
    Its ridiculous though, these guys are actually using big name banks names now and *still* getting away with it.

    B

    [edit]
    They even added this nice little orange banner (attached), awww how sweet....


  • #5
    Lurk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭Lurk


    So far I've got those spams from BOI, Ulster Bank, and another UK bank that I can't remember the name of. I just delete them but...argh...they drive me mad. :mad:


  • #6
    NoDayBut2Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭NoDayBut2Day


    Blue_Lagoon wrote:
    Looks like spam, an attempt to gain personal information for ID theft, a potential fraud, or a way to load malware when you click the link?

    I would say it's spam, too.
    Don't click on the link; will only bring you trouble.


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  • #7
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I get at least one a day from Bank of Scotland. They try and trick the spam filter by adding words at the bottom of the email.


  • #8
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I've gotten them from loads of UK and online banks, except the one I'm actually with! Also, I got one from Worldpay. They frightened me at first, but then I realised that they were bullshit.


  • #9
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Get these for paypal and chase manhattan bank all the time....I do have a paypal account but no bank account in the US.

    Never gotten any phishing mail from my actual banks, although I've had mail warning me of them...suppose it all depends which sites you decide to use your mail address on...


    Got to laugh at the trouble these guys go to to replicate the formatting and style of the emails and the subsequent phishing site only to be let down by piss poor spelling and syntax mistakes....bloody foreigners.


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