discussion Best email

[stona]

I've had several recently purporting to be from the Nat West regarding my account. The usual stuff, need my log on details due to computer problem....blah......blah.

It's not just that surely everybody knows that your bank would never contact you in this way, and they would usually use at least grammatically passable English. It's that I don't have an account with that bank, nor have I ever banked with them

Remember campers that if you reveal, even inadvertently, your security details to someone else and then get your account cleaned out the bank may well decide that it's your fault and try and squirm out of any liability.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

If you get ANY random email from a bank, even if it's yours.... Delete it.

If the bank HAS got a problem with your account then they will phone or send a letter. (or if you can't wait for that and it's worrying you, then phone or visit them!)

NEVER click a link to go to sign into your bank, ALWAYS go the banks main site and log in from there.

Never give any details online, your name, address, date of birth and telephone number are enough to set up a false I'd for someone.

 

[flyjoe180]

I get at least one of those bank details emails a week usually from banks I don't hold accounts with. All the advice above is good practice, and if like here you have a spam/phishing/online fraud department within one of your government departments (yes I know they too aren't exactly angels), forward the details to them to review and deal with as they see fit. If online scams aren't reported they will continue to be sent out and someone somewhere will fall into the trap.