banksafeonline.org - Scam Reporting

hotkee

http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/

Just thought I let anyone interested know about this site.
Its a site for reporting scams like you get in emails claiming to be from a bank.

If you get suspicious emails - report it to this lot.

Biggles

I'm afraid I'd find it almost a full-time job. And they would almost certainly already know about it anyway...

Best practice is just to delete without reading.

malik999

I had a really good a few months ago and took the time to send the information on to Egg. It was really cleverly done. All but one of the links in the email was to the genuine egg website. The one link that wasnt to egg even used the word egg in its domain. It was the most genuine looking phishing email I had ever come across

It was so genuine looking i took the time to send all the details on to Egg with an explanation of the links and how the email worked. Egg wrote back 2 weeks later explaining to me in great detail what "Phishing" was

hotkee

malik999 - you gotta laugh!

I have been making complaints direct to banks for a while.

You get the phishing scam where you don't even have an account with the bank mentioned in the email - I forwarded those to the banks concerned. It has to be done - if people don't report it - the banks will lose money and its customers which lose in the end.

withnell

I find the most difficult thing is knowing where to send it - I don't tend to have the terms and conditions to hand with the email they ask you to forward them on to

Would make so much sense if they used a standard word, like "phishing@" or "spam@" for every bank

G_M

find the most difficult thing is knowing where to send it

To the bank concerned. Most advertise a fraud email address somewhere on their websites.

Just thought I let anyone interested know about this site. http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/
Its a site for reporting scams like you get in emails claiming to be from a bank.

If you get suspicious emails - report it to this lot.

Who are they? How do we know they are not a scam in themselves of some sort? I'm wary about even clicking the link to an unknown site like this. Sorry Hotkey - chances are you are genuine, but how does one know......?

asbokid

malik999 wrote: »

I had a really good a few months ago and took the time to send the information on to Egg. It was really cleverly done. All but one of the links in the email was to the genuine egg website. The one link that wasnt to egg even used the word egg in its domain. It was the most genuine looking phishing email I had ever come across

It was so genuine looking i took the time to send all the details on to Egg with an explanation of the links and how the email worked. Egg wrote back 2 weeks later explaining to me in great detail what "Phishing" was

i was sent a Phishing email purportedly from Lloyds TSB.. The website it linked to was very plausible so I forwarded the rogue email to Lloyds, expecting a thank you for my trouble..

A week later I had heard nothing from Lloyds, so I checked the website to see whether it was still up, running and harvesting login details.. Indeed yes!

It would be nice to think Lloyds had left the site up as a honey trap to catch the perpetrators when they eventually log in to retrieve their booty of bank account IDs..

Somehow I think not.. I suspect Lloyds just couldn't be bothered to follow it up...

I checked on the phishing site's IP address with a dig and a rwhois query. It traced back to a webserver for a firm of lawyers in the USA... What better place for scams?! All the harvesting scripts were tucked deep in the law firm's website.

p.s. you're not the malik of the money box junction fame?! great letter if so! good luck with it!

asbokid

withnell wrote: »

I find the most difficult thing is knowing where to send it - I don't tend to have the terms and conditions to hand with the email they ask you to forward them on to

Would make so much sense if they used a standard word, like "phishing@" or "spam@" for every bank

If you change browser from Microsoft's notoriously insecure Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox, it has a dedicated in-built tool for reporting phishing sites.. And if someone has got there before you and reported a scam site before you try to visit it.. a big warning pops up on screen..

hotkee

G_M wrote: »

I'm wary about even clicking the link to an unknown site like this. Sorry Hotkey - chances are you are genuine, but how does one know......?

G_M - that link I found from there http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/section/identity_fraud.htm .

I would not trust any link myself - the only reason I ever found it and would recommend using that site was because the Met Police web site is recommending it.

And the reason I found the met police link was I got one email that annoyed me so much I just wanted the police to ring someone's neck.

rb10

asbokid wrote: »

i was sent a Phishing email purportedly from Lloyds TSB.. The website it linked to was very plausible so I forwarded the rogue email to Lloyds, expecting a thank you for my trouble..

You should not even have clicked the link to check the website. Some links are unique to your email address, so they'll be able to tell that your email address is active and so bombard you with spam from now on.

The golden rule is to delete them straight away, and definitely never click a link.

A week later I had heard nothing from Lloyds, so I checked the website to see whether it was still up, running and harvesting login details.. Indeed yes!

It would be nice to think Lloyds had left the site up as a honey trap to catch the perpetrators when they eventually log in to retrieve their booty of bank account IDs..

Somehow I think not.. I suspect Lloyds just couldn't be bothered to follow it up...

Lloyds may be a big bank, but they don't have the power to remove any website they don't like ... this is the whole reason why this problem continues. It's because the way the internet works is that anyone can put whatever they like on there. Which is brilliant in many ways, but you do fall into problems here.

G_M

Thanks Hotkee...