New bank phishing mail?

ben500

Received this into my inbox




Subject:
Transfer Amount: £290.00

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Dear Abbey Customer,[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]JOHN MARK made an online funds transfer to your online account. [/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]The details of this transaction are shown below.[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Transfer Date and Time: 16/11/08[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Transfer Amount: £290.00[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Transfer Description: Payment[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]To view this transaction and your current balance, please click here {link removed} If you have any questions related to this message or the funds transfer, [/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]please contact our helpdesk to rectify this problem. [/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Please Note That Payments May Take Up To 4 Banking Days[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]To Reflect In Your Account.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Sincerely,[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Abbey Customer Service[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma, Arial]Not seen this one before and I'm sure a few will fall for it.[/FONT]

dealer_wins

A new twist to phishing!!

The give-away is "Dear Abbey Customer".

Sharon87

That and the link. Banks never send links in emails.

trisontana

Yet another twist in phising emails was one I received today. It concerns the take-over of Alliance and Leicester by Banco Santander. In the words of this email :-

"You are kindly advised to follow the instructions below to register your account to allow easy merger."

Of course all they want from you is your account details so they can plunder it. By the look of it, the fake website has already been closed down

ben500

I bet a lot will fall foul to this one though, stabs at the greedy strings a bit but not too outragous with the amount.

Luvmyfreebies

I seem to get emails like this in a daily basis, from various banks and airlines I have no relationship with and also, bizarrly, companies like UPS telling me they have charged my credit card for a failed delivery etc. I NEVER click on any links in the emails, I figure that if I don't recognise the company and haven't made any transactions with them then it must be a scam. There's no way I would have given any one of them my credit card or bank details, and anyone genuinely chasing me for money have my address and phone number so can contact me that way. If you don't recognise the sender then it's best to just delete the email without even opening it.

Next question - how do they get our email addresses? My best guess is that in the past (I dont do it now) I've mistakenly replied to/forwarded one or more of these so-called innocent-looking "round robin" emails, "send this on to at least 10 people and something lovely will happen to you" and another recent more ingenious one "M&S will give you a £50 gift voucher if you forward this on". They are "mug lists" where someone is collecting email address then selling them on. Again, just delete without taking any action, if you don't reply then they can't get at you and eventually will go away!!

trisontana

Another classic one here, from the "United Nations" no-less. You can see from the exemplary English that this one must be pukka!

ECOBANK/UNITED NATIONS 2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

DIRECTOR

ATTN: Sir/Madam,

SCAMMED VICTIM/$500,000 BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $500,000 USD.
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thounsand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $500,000 USD compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Cotonou, Benin Republic, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating insyndicates all over the world today.
In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body is now paying 250 victims of this operators $500,000 USD each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.
Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Benin Republic, the payments are to be paid by Central Bank Benin as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by The Rabo Bank, London for funds remittance. Benefactor will be cleared and recommended for payment by ECO BANK PLC Benin.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 136 left to be paid the compensations of $500,000 USD each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.CALL ME ON THE NUMBER +xxxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@inMail24.com


You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, ATM CARD PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS. I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Akinwuntan Patrick.
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $500,000 USD