Beware, Nasty sly B@st@rds about.

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Below is a copy of an e-mail my wife received this afternoon, what makes it worrying is that the e-mail had all the proper headers etc and looked genuine, Have pasted the text as it arrived but unable to attach complete document, We have forwarded it to EGG banking but at 1st glance it looks genuine apart from a couple of spelling errors.


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From: "Egg Banking plc"<costumer.services@egg.com>
Date: 2007/12/01 Sat PM 02:37:14 GMT
Subject: Important Security Message
Egg Online Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the Egg Online accounts. As a result we periodically review Egg Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vunerable to the unauthorised use.

This message has been sent to you from Egg Bank because we have noticed invalid login attempts into your account, due to this we are temporarily limiting and restricting your account access until we confirm your identity.


To confirm your identity and remove your account limitation please following the link below.



Egg Bank is committed to ensure the safeguard of each customer's personal information, making sure only authorised individuals have access to their accounts. It is all about your security.
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, Egg will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://new.egg.com/visitor/0,,3_89058--View_1948,00.html
 
Just as worrying is the fact that they knew you had an EGG account in the first place.......... Hope you weren't getting child benefit as well???

Good luck

Sparkie
 
I get tons of these, including ones from banks with whom I don't and never have had an account. Even if you have an account with (in this case) Egg, NEVER click on the link.

A friend of mine did once in a tearing hurry and got ripped off for £8K! She got it back in the end but it was a major pain.

If you want to check your account or update your details navigate yourself to to the bank's actual site.
 
Thankfully we got rid of the egg card a year or two back which to be honest is why we smelled a rat, we got on to egg right away and they confirmed it as a scam. the really worrying thing to us was that the thing was so like the genuine egg site, even the web address was the same but for 2 digits. No wonder people get caught out, Mike.
 
No bank will ever contact you through email and ask for numbers or code words. There is so much spam never open any. They are sent on spec usuually by sending to random addresses. If you open it it proves your acct exists and this data alone is worth cash as your email addy is sold on and your spam load increases significantly.
 
No but they do sometimes phone and ask you to confirm your details before they pass information to you. I always tell them, write a letter.
 
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Just as worrying is the fact that they knew you had an EGG account in the first place.

[/ QUOTE ]They don't know, it s just coincidence. In the past week my spam account has picked up a similar message purportedly from each of HBOS, Nat West and Royal Bank of Scotland. (I do bank with one of these).

The spam account identifies these as all originating in Spain.

Its a good idea, if you can, to have a trap identifing emails that spoof their origin, all these supposed bank ones get caught. Or look at the full email header for whacky routing addresses (e.g oriental.punkass.com appears in one of mine).
 
that would have been sent to thousands of people. Preferably, DON'T click on links in unsolicited emails, but if you must, ALWAYS cut n paste links in unsolicited email ... pasting them into your browsers address bar, and check that it is a meaningful address. Most of these phishing attempts have suspicious addresses 'behind' the links.
 
Hi I get at least 3 everyday in my bulk folder dont look at them just tick and delete,
I have been getting these for 30 years (not pc only) it started on fax machines before we all had a pc . when most people had never heard of a fax machine,
messages were sent from Nigeria the content has not changed much over the years dont get exited just delete.

Richard
 
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Just as worrying is the fact that they knew you had an EGG account in the first place...

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They didn't. They probably sent out a 100,000 emails and if a 100 of those people had an Egg account they would be pleased. If 2 of those 100 hadn't heard of phishing and responded, they had a result for zero investment.

If you can't spot such basic scams please make sure you have a responsible adult with you at all times when you are on the internet!
 
Frankly, nothing at all unusual about that. 'Western Union' keep wanting me to update my 'personal details' in order to keep my 'account' open with them, 'City Bank' regularly want me to confirm my account details, so do Paypal - usually on pain of having my account frozen if I dont, AOL theatening to cut off my Internet connection, a range of different complaints, awards, upgrades, downgrades on my Ebay account - all needing me to confirm my account details via 'click here' to qualify or not be disqualified.

At least a dozen senior Nigerian Officials in the last few weeks want me to help them remove or obtain funds locked up in various ways for which I will receive large sums of money.

Then there's the 'competition winner' scams: I have so far won about £6,000,000 in competitions, for which I need to open a 'special' bank account so the winnings can be paid to me! Of course you have to deposit a sum of money to the 'new' account to open it. They will send you the account number and details...

Then there was the guy on Ebay who offered £850 to bypass the auction of an item worth about £50 so he could 'buy it in time for his sons birthday'. Payment via Paypal of course. But Paypal is secure isnt it? No, the small print is very clear, a payment to your Paypal account is not 'cleared funds, and can be claimed back by Paypal if the transaction with the buyers bank fails for any reason.

'Anything not addressed to you by name is fraudulent' is the absolute rule, however convincing.

Dear sir ... Dear Ebay member... Dear account holder... Dear 'Oldharry' or other screen name... Dear friend... all get automatic binning. Specially if there is a link to follow to contact, put things right or enter details.

If in any doubt, I go to the regular URL of the sender and send off a query.

Many organisations have a site for you to forward suspect emails. Spoof@ebay.co.uk and spoof@paypal.co.uk being the two I send off most frequently! Many banks have a similar email address for forwarding suspect email, so they can pursue the fraudsters.
 
Like others here I get these most days. Internet Explorer 7 has a "Phishing Filter" which you can turn on (it is in the Tools menu) if you are not confident of spotting them yourself.

Alan
 
This has been going on for years now, I must get 10+ Phishing emails everyday, ranging from: 'Dear kindest Sir,
My name is Egumbo Oguele, the son of the former defence minister of Botswana........' To: Nationwide/Paypal/Barclays asking me to provide my details for security reasons etc etc etc.
(It must be pointed out that these emails have nothing whatsoever to do with the companies they imitate, they have not 'hacked' into their systems to get your email address etc. Email address lists are bought and sold to/by spammers the world over, or can be extracted from websites using spiders, a good reason to avoid publishing your email address on websites/blogs etc unless it's an address that you've setup specially for this purpose)

I heard the otherday some poor suckers lost their entire life savings to this sort of thing.
Thing is it's getting a bit Darwinian, if you're that gullible/gready then perhaps you deserve to lose your money?! Perhaps a little harsh but then again........in a dog eat dog world.........

This kind of thing is just an electronic version of what you get when travelling 'tourist' areas of the 2nd/3rd world. Golden rule , if anyone aproaches you offering stuff/friendship etc, they want something from you. One has to be a bit cynical.

It's not new, it's not clever and please don't be alarmed by it, don't be a mug, just hit 'delete'! (delete,delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete......)
 
just this week I went to use my cashpoint card, and got a ballance saying i had no money, then I got a phonecall telling me someone in Malaysia had been trying to access money from my account. I have learnt to not give out details over the phone when they have phoned me, so after hanging up and phoning the bank myself I was told that there had been three attempts to draw out money in malaysia.
The bank cancelled my card and sent me a new one, but how did someone get my bank details? and yes I do get child benefit, and the bank told me they are very busy with fraudalent attempts at the moment.
 
Well done! You have pretty much admitted that you have an Egg account!!! I suggest you close it quick and open another account - somewhere.

The ONLY actions you should take with these e-mails are to bin them without opening and - possibly - forward them without opening to your bank's phishing helpline. Never, NEVER, respond to them.

The "Nasty sly B@st@rds" rely on a small percentage of people being silly or unwary enough to respond and to give away a little more information about their bank accounts.
 
1. Agree. They ring you asking you to prove who you are (which most of us already know reasonably well, even in the state I am now), yet are totally thrown by your responding 'you called me, prove to me who the [--word removed--] are you.'
2.Banking is fraud, anyway. They don't have the money they imply they have, by a very long way. It just happens to be an agreed form of making the world go round.
 
I curently recieve between ten and twenty similar per day including natwest and viagra ones. I have tried blocking with limited success. The online route to my email via orange has an allowance of 100 addresses and is full. The natwest ones get sent to natwest who requested them in order to try to block them..without much success i'm afraid. Doubt much will happen until China takes control of the censorship worldwide.
 
Had a similar one regarding a Paypal account, on their website they a "report fraud" link. DO NOT REVEAL any personal details to any one is the key.
 
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