BS: Halifax Bank Scam

Subject: Halifax Bank Scam
From: bubblyrat
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 10:38 AM

Today I have received an e-mail purporting to come from the Halifax Bank in the UK .It states that my account has been the target of people trying to access it , and will therefore be shut down and sealed off until I re-register my personal access details with "them" !!
      The giveaway (there always is one) is the phrase "in order to prevent this to happen again " that they incorporated in their otherwise fairly sophisticated format !!

               Just thought I'd warn anyone out there who uses Halifax !!

          Sir Lemual R Van Gogh

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Barb'ry
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 10:49 AM

Unfortunately, most of us over here get targeted with an awful lot of these. I'm hoping people know that they're scam/phishing emails but I suppose there must be the odd few who press the link. It worries me that it will be the elderly or the new users who will get hit.

On a slightly different note, don't you get these sort of emails in the US?

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Amos
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 11:12 AM

ALWAYS check the source code or headers to find out where links are really pointing and where emails are really from.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Crowhugger
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 12:27 PM

And check verrrrrry carefully because some scam sites are named remarkably similarly to the companies they're pretending to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 12:33 PM

What's with the ones that, if you look at the real email they come from, all say "updateweb" or somesuch? I always delete them.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 02:56 PM

Banks know how to use the post office. If it's important enough to let you know, you'll receive a letter asking you to drop in and see them.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 03:01 PM

I've just received one purporting to be from the Santander Building Society.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Penny S.
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 03:35 PM

If it's that important, they'll phone. The Halifax did call me when my card was misused. And I got that phish, and others, and wiped them.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: gnu
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 04:00 PM

Do NOT even open such emails! Forget the scam, think virus.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 04:43 PM

We get such emails all the time here in Canada and, while most are laughably inept, every once in a while we get one that mimics our bank's communications products -- logos, layout and font -- perfectly. In fact, these scammers get only one thing wrong: as a respectable Canadian bank, ours never sends emails containing clickable links.

When we get one of those messages, I log on in the normal way and verify the information on the bank website against our records at home. We have never found anything wrong with our account, but I bet we would if we clicked those links!

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Michael
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 05:59 AM

Got one today from 'The Cooperative Bank' with a link to download a security update. Don't have an account with them though. And it was from a Yahoo email address.
Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 06:31 AM

I look after the info@ address of one of the committees I'm on & get a gi-normous number of phishing emails - some even say they come from the bank we use! Some even claim to come from banks that don't operate in our country.

If our bank wants to contact us they either post a letter or get the person who deals with our treasurer to contact him in the usual fashion.

Subject: RE: BS: Halifax Bank Scam
From: Musket
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 07:22 AM

Ironically, if you look at the details of their current account charges for overdrafts and the "many" advantages of their more exclusive accounts, "Halifax bank scam" could describe more legal practices too....