Scam e-mail from "Abbey"

pink_princess

:hello: Hi people i never normally come on this board,but i wanted to warn people about a scam e-mail my OH recieved today.
The e-mail comes from [EMAIL="info@abbey"]info @ abbey[/EMAIL] yet clearly isn t from abbey themselves.

It states that the nigierian goverment mistakenly paid money into his account and then had the mistake rectified.

It goes on to say that the interest accrued is 4.6 million and that a Mr John Buba is trying to reclaim this interest.It states to claim it he has to ring a phone number and contact a private e-mail address.

The purpose of my post is just to let others know this is circulating and also does any-one know who we are meant to inform if any-one.

Thanx
PP

Eydon

All you can do with any of these scams (other than just delete them) is to make sure that the bank concerned (in this case Abbey) are aware of it.

Most of the banks have an email address that you can forward these types of emails to (in this case it's phishing@abbey.com)

devils_vixen

There seems to be one from Cooperative bank too! I received 2 in 3 hours. Don't know what it said as I just deleted it. The subject is important information about Cooperative Bank.
Might be a scam or could be a virus!

rsykes2000

devils_vixen wrote: »

There seems to be one from Cooperative bank too! I received 2 in 3 hours. Don't know what it said as I just deleted it. The subject is important information about Cooperative Bank.
Might be a scam or could be a virus!

There are tens of millions being sent every day. I get several every single day myself. Just delete them.

yorksrabbit

Sadly, if we were to open up a new thread for every phish, this board would be jammed. Like rskyes2000 I get several every day in my spam folder, and at least three or four a week specifically from banks and building societies.

All of 'em are from morons to whom English is a fifth language and who continue to fail to realise that these daft emails don't con anyone.

No point in even reporting 'em; just delete or leave 'em to be automatically emptied (if your spam folder is rigged that way.)

I've only ever saved two, the first an Inland Revenue tax refund notice, all done out in a re-worked official Revenue form. A lot of work had gone into it but it all fell apart because the refund could only be paid to a credit card (please give us your PIN), and if you didn't have a credit card, then the Revenue would pay it to someone else's credit card (please give us their PIN.) Hilarious -- and you even had to fax the completed form to a phone number that wasn't even in the UK.

The other is from eBay, which throughout wishes to warn me to change my username and password because my account has been jacked. Quote:

"eBay takes seriously your privacy and security and all account jacks are investigated. You are to put in your existing username and password and your new username and password and then please not to use your account for three days as eBay's anti-jacking processes are completing."

Wonderful.

jgallcash

pink_princess wrote: »

It goes on to say that the interest accrued is 4.6 million and that a Mr John Buba is trying to reclaim this interest.PP

This is a really serious matter that causes untold upset and damage to the individuals and organisations involved but is it only me that finds it extremely funny that Mr John Buba is trying to claim £4.6m in interest? :rotfl:

I cant believe these scammers cant come up with someting more realistic!

Fair play for bringing it to attention though op

devils_vixen

Another e-mail scam for Alliance and Lester! Apparantly there has been one or more attempts to log onto my account! Must be important as this e-mail was sent 3 times in 3 hours!!!! Only one problem....................... I don't own the above bank account :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I think I am aware of the source of these e-mails as I have recently posted a few adds on gumtree!!

dreamypuma

I think that banking email scams should be made a sticky. In fairness they are common place, and affect most high street banks. Most are very obvious and don't really pose a threat to the more alert amongst as they are so well publicised and often poorly targeted.

Prone to these are probably the less computer savy.

missingink

My OH received a similar one from 'Abbey' this morning.

I would've posted a copy but he deleted it.:rolleyes:

Anyway, it said that his online banking account had been suspended due to what they suspected was fraudulant activity(or words to that effect). It asked for his account details, etc. When he clicked on the 'contact us' link, nothing happened.

Thing is, OH doesn't even have an account with Abbey! I think someone is just sending these out at random, hoping to catch someone out.

He contacted Abbey straight away, they didn't seem too bothered TBH.:mad:

He didn't know who else to report it to so just deleted it.

tomwakefield

yorksrabbit wrote: »

All of 'em are from morons to whom English is a fifth language and who continue to fail to realise that these daft emails don't con anyone.

Unfortunately I don't think that's the case.

According to Wikipedia one spam email costs an estimated $0.00001 for the sender. If that gets sent out to one million people, that costs $10. If only one person in that million falls for it and the spammer obtains bank details, that will be profitable for the scammer.

Very few people will fall for phishing scams, but enough will to make it financially worthwhile for the spammer.

advent1122

missingink wrote: »

When he clicked on the 'contact us' link, nothing happened.

Bad Move
Just clicking on the link could install a key logger or other nasties.

Never ever ever click on a link in an email.