Suspicious email

tesuhoha

Had an email today supposedly from Nationwide building society. It said that they were checking my email address and that i was to click on the link below. When i clicked on the link i was invited to log onto internet banking by entering my user name, security question answer and password. Does this sound like a phishing email to you. My husband put in f.......off, f........ and b........s in the three boxes. Hope some poor Nationwide employee was not sitting there looking at all the swear words.

steve_cov

Somehow, I don't think you need to worry...

The bank will ask you to visit their homepage, not click on a link.

mandi

I dont think you need to be told tesuhoha..... good reply, but me thinks it would have been better if you didnt answer at all Mrs.... Hope everythings ok,

next time, Delete ... :T

sloughflint

Would forwarding the email onto Nationwide be any good via secure message? I don't know if banks have any facility to locate source of emails.

Skint1

I use this for dodgy looking emails
http://www.phishguard.com/

skiddy2k

when you click the links on advertisments or phishers, dont some of them send you more junk because they know your e-mail address is active? thats what i always thought and allways recomend people not to click anything and just ignore it.
great job with identifying the pshishers! you dont know how many people fall for it!

moonrakerz

The banks don't help themselves on this subject.

Some time back I had an e-mail asking me for info on what I thought of my Bank. The e-mail address just looked odd, a very long one with Alliance & Leicester buried in the middle. I sent it to Alliance and Leicester's "Fraud Hotline" - it took them 5 days to answer my query !!
It was actually genuine, A & L had hired some firm to do a customer satisfaction survey- but the way they went about it wasn't very clever.

skiddy2k

problem is that you cant allways rely on looking at the e-mail address... it may be [email="someone@allianceandleicester.com"]someone@allianceandleicester.com[/email], [email="someone@allianceandleicester.co.uk"]someone@allianceandleicester.co.uk[/email] or something like that, but the e-mail isnt allways written by them... its called "spoofing". people "spoof" the e-mail address and write whatever they want, making it look legitimate and is very hard to tell if the address is spoofed or not.
personaly, i never trust e-mails from banks, if its important, they'l call me, i take their name and reason of intrest and call them back.. takes slightly longer, but much safer!
once, someone called me posing as a bank (on private number), i took their name and reason (said its for security checks). he said he knew my surname as proof. dont know how the hell he got that?!.. i shread all my papers! i called the bank again and they said they had no recolection of a call made to me or reason to call me

tesuhoha

i think i am going to report it once i get round to it. i also once had a call like that asking my security details and i refused to answer and phoned the bank and it was genuine. i had to laugh because at the bottom of the email we got yesterday it said, nationwide will never ask you security questions by email. it must have been a copy of a genuine message on nationwide's web site.

John_Gray

You should either soon get through the post, or be able to get from one of their branches, the Nationwide pamphlet "Be Safe. It's easy to protect your identity and stay secure online" (SF01, March 2006).

There is a lot of good advice there which is not specific to Nationwide, and they also suggest the following websites:
https://www.nationwide.co.uk/security
https://www.identity-theft.org.uk
https://www.banksafeonline.org.uk
https://www.getsafeonline.org
https://www.staysafeonline.org
https://www.callcredit.co.uk

I often find the biggest giveaway is getting an email from a bank or building society with whom I don't have an account!

John