Fake Natwest Email

fortune_pete

It's unusual for a phishing page to remain active this long but then it is a holiday weekend in the US. The hacked server appears to belong to a businesswoman in Alabama. It could be the authorities have left the page up to try to track the criminals' activities?

Inactive

Anybody that cannot see that the above is a scam, shouldn't really be allowed internet access, you only have to look at the poor English to see just how obvious it is.;)

CHR15

I think the OP is new to computers. The OP nearly fell for it but doesn't even bank with them lol :laugh:

I just hope he/she isn't going to post every silly email which arrives in his/her inbox

Barneysmom

Thanks op, I had one the other day from Lloyds TSB the same! I actually thought it was real though, it was so plausable. But the wording was identical to your email. I didn't click on the link or anything, I just deleted it.
But I honestly thought it was real.
I'll look in my deleted items box and see if it's still there, how would I forward it to M/S website? Or should I send it to Lloyds?

Edit ;
p.s Sorry, I can't find it now.

Gorgeous_George

inamabilis wrote: »

That's not actually correct - if you hover over the link you'll see the address that you'll be taken to when you click (rather than the address that you're hovering over) - hope that make sense

The NatWest fake email that I received a few months ago definitely had a cookie mentioned in the link. The link (snapdecisionscatering) above refers to a cookie but this is not the link that I received.

There is a risk that something such as a keylogger could be installed on your PC if you do anything other than delete the email. Just opening it could run the hidden progam.

GG

Oblivion

The number of these phishing scams has risen hugely in the past six months.

I'm getting on average 3 a day. Some are so amateurish they are instantly recognisable and quite laughable, although there are a few reasonably sophisticated ones around.

I always use Mailwasher to view the content of my emails before deciding which to delete and which to download from the Virgin server into my OE Inbox. Mailwasher automatically displays the true URL that the link would take you to, and they stick out like a sore thumb.

The other nice thing about Mailwasher is that it allows you to cut and paste the content of an email without having to download it. I often do this with phishing emails and use the content to send them back a load of bogus bank details, but using one of my hotmail addresses rather than my main one.

Dave.

Inactive

Barneysmom wrote: »

Thanks op, I had one the other day from Lloyds TSB the same! I actually thought it was real though, it was so plausable. But the wording was identical to your email. I didn't click on the link or anything, I just deleted it.
But I honestly thought it was real.

Well read it again, do you honestly think that NatWest or any bank would use a capital D after a comma?


Does this read correct to you?

" You are strictly advised to match your Security Question and Answers rightly to avoid service suspension. "

It certainly doesn't to me.

Oblivion

Inactive wrote: »

Well read it again, do you honestly think that NatWest or any bank would use a capital D after a comma?

Well, in his preamble, the OP uses a capital L after a comma ....

English usage, like nostalgia, just isn't what it used to be. :rotfl:

Dave.

Inactive

Oblivion wrote: »

Well, in his preamble, the OP uses a capital L after a comma ....

Well spotted, there is little hope then.;)

Scousebird_2

I don't know if this made any difference but I kept getting these emails once a week for ages-then one day i'd just had enough and replied with a few foul words and I haven't had one since!

Lol!!