Possible scam e-mails warning about postal strike and paying credit card on time

BigDave81

You can also forward them on to the credit card companies or banks as well so they have them logged and noted, apparently they get acted on.

I get emaild every week from Alliance & Leicester, Halifax and Abbey and I don't even have accounts with them, Paypal is also another regular, have to laugh that they are checked as spam by my email haha

oscar52

MBNA have been sending out emails to advise customers of the online banking and other methods of payment given the impending postal strikes. Cant comment on all of them (from other companies) but I highly expect a fair amount of them to be genuine.

princess_loki

well i got my A&L bill in the post this morning - so no problems with the postal strike for me!

as i said i was not completely sure about the e-mail received and the girl i spoke to at A&L wasn't either - best to be safe than sorry

Chris2000

I got an email from A&L yesterday. It's definitely genuine, quoting my surname (which cannot be guessed from the email address) and the last 4 digits of card number. It does include a genuine but dodgy-looking link to Online Banking.

It is also likely that fake versions will be circulating by now. Anyone receiving an email like this and who is at all unsure should follow the advice in this thread, don't click on the link, type the bank's website address directly into a browser and go from there.