hsbc scam

dollybird

Just received an email this morning don't get caught out.

Dear Customers,

HSBC Online Internet Banking always look forward for the high security of our clients. Some customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from HSBC Bank advising them to follow a link to what appear to be a HSBC web site, where they are prompted to enter their personal Online Banking details. HSBC Internet Banking is in no way involved with this email and the web site does not belong to us.

HSBC is proud to announce about our new updated secure system. We updated our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and secure online banking service.

Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to please update your account info at the following link.

http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/pib-home

*Important*
Please provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.





J. F. Steve
Online Security Manager
HSBC Bank plc.

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hawkwinddotcom

ummmm dont security minded banks not communicate this way.

ie dont reply to emails, type in the address yourself

Looks real enough but still feel its dubious.

trisontana

There seems to be more and more bank phishing e-mails over the last few days. I have received at least a dozen in my various e-mail in-boxes, all from banks where I don't have an account. for example I have just received one supposedly from the Nat West. As you can see from the superb English it must be for real !

"The management presents you the apologies for temporary iinconveniences and expresses the thanks for co-operating" .

babylon85

The link is a genuine link (links to personal Internet Banking), however HSBC will never communicate to their customers via email - due to phishing emails etc.

trevor_john

dollybird wrote:

Just received an email this morning don't get caught out.

Dear Customers,

HSBC Online Internet Banking always look forward for the high security of our clients. Some customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from HSBC Bank advising them to follow a link to what appear to be a HSBC web site, where they are prompted to enter their personal Online Banking details. HSBC Internet Banking is in no way involved with this email and the web site does not belong to us.

HSBC is proud to announce about our new updated secure system. We updated our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and secure online banking service.

Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to please update your account info at the following link.

http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/pib-home

*Important*
Please provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.





J. F. Steve
Online Security Manager
HSBC Bank plc.

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I got the same one.I wonder how stupid they really think we are,sorry but anyone who falls for it needs REAL help.Dear customers my ar5e !!!

trisontana

I am afraid there are a lot of gullible (or stupid) people around. Did you see tonight's Watchdog ? Somebody on there had paid out over £40,000 because they had thought they had won the Spanish lottery (even though they had never bought a ticket) . It said on the programme that these scammers are raking in millions a year because there are stupid people aplenty.

Fuzzy_2

Another thing to be aware of is the poor grammar in the mailing, this one's not so bad, but phrases such as "Please provide all these info completely.." and "...Internet Banking always look forward for the high security of our clients."

I know mine's not perfect, but if you read it again there are several phrases which don't sound right, and certainly would not be in a message the bank would send out.

gizmoleeds

I get several of these every day - I get them from "NatWest", "Halifax", "HSBC", "Barclays" (yet, none from my real bank, Lloyds TSB).

They use the exact same wording for each one. :mad:

johnsmith_4

dollybird wrote:

Just received an email this morning don't get caught out.

Dear Customers,

HSBC Online Internet Banking always look forward for the high security of our clients. Some customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from HSBC Bank advising them to follow a link to what appear to be a HSBC web site, where they are prompted to enter their personal Online Banking details. HSBC Internet Banking is in no way involved with this email and the web site does not belong to us.

HSBC is proud to announce about our new updated secure system. We updated our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and secure online banking service.

Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to please update your account info at the following link.

http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/pib-home

*Important*
Please provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.





J. F. Steve
Online Security Manager
HSBC Bank plc.

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Try using something like Netcraft Toolbar, these help prevent phishing.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

hawkwinddotcom

johnsmith wrote:

Try using something like Netcraft Toolbar, these help prevent phishing.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

Use Deepnet explorer as your browser it has one built in

greenwich

One other thing to watch out for. You may see the correct web address of a company shown as a hyperlink like https://www.hsbc.co.uk so you might think it's safe to to click on it. But when you do click, it goes to some other site. This is easy for a scammer to set up in HTML. So if you do click on such a link, check the actual address when the site loads in the browser. It might be subtly different.

I wanted to demonstrate this (easy to do in HTML) but I don't know how to do HTML in these posts.