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I'm glad it's not just me then that gets these almost on a daily basis. I have in the past sent them on to the respective banks fraud line.
OH is not so tech minded so panics when he sees them in the inbox.
Di

There's a good one at the moment doing the rounds from eBay, got it myself this morning. You get an official looking e-mail asking you about an item you are selling, now if you do happen to be selling stuff on eBay then it's easy to get sucked in and click on the item number to go to eBay, it's a fraudulent site of course but it looks legit, the ruse is that most of the time you go to eBay you have to log in so it's not out of the ordinary, the only problem is if you look at the web address in your browser window it's not eBay, enter your details and they go straight to the fraudsters, they then use your eBay account tosell ficticious or strolen goods.

I always do it and put a couple of choice swear words in the log in field so that when they get them they think they've got a bite until they read the log in username and password swearwords.

Ron
www.genealogyprinters.com

We bank with Halifax, and some while ago had a similar email "from them" - so contacted them, and were asked to send a copy to their "fraud dept". I wonder how many people respond to this type of email?
Liz

Kate, plus of course there is this

"For assistance, log in to your Nationwide Online Bank account and choose the "Help" link on any page."

Abbey advertising Nationwide? Dont think so!

What always amuses me about these e-mails is the absolutely appalling grammar and liberal sprinklings of spelling errors. You would think that if somebody was going to put one of these scam e-mails together, they'd at least get the basics right. (I counted seven instances there of the wrong words being used or the words being in the wrong order.)

I have had about four or five emails for various banks etc that I have no connection with at all, so they all go to the 'report spam' box.

Lizx

Dear Sir/Madam,

Abbey National Bank. always look forward for the high security of our clients. During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your account information.This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information.
2. Submitting invalid information during the initial sign in process.

Due to this, you are requested to please update and verify your information by clicking the link below:


https://myonlineaccounts2.abbeynational.co.uk/CentralLogonWeb/Logon?action=prepare

*Important*
We have asked few additional information which is going to be the part of secure login process. These additional information will be asked during your future login security so, please provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.



J. S. Smith
Security Advisor
Abbey National Bank.



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Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
For assistance, log in to your Nationwide Online Bank account and choose the "Help" link on any page.

Abbey National Email ID # 1009

abbey national phishing again!!

Bob