be wary people - just had this email

loopyloulou_3

I have just recieved this email from 'egg'. I dont even have an egg account so am assume it is dodgy!

Please be careful!


Dear Customer,

In our bid to secure all our customers account against online fraud, which has
threatened to consume our online banking system.
Egg Bank Internet Banking Security teams recently discovered that
different blacklisted i.p's have logged into your Egg Bank Online Account,
and multiple password failures were present
We now need you to update your account for verification purpose.
To intiate your account verification process
follow the reference below:
http://www.newegg.org.uk/customer/login.php

Thank You.

Customer Support

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, Egg ® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://new.egg.com/visitor/0,,3_11217--View_822,00.html

Broken_hearted

I got one from 'Barclays' yesterday, some people are just scum.

lynzpower

Ive seen that I got it myself a few months ago, I do have an egg card but :

As if egg would use a website called this http://www.newegg.org.uk/customer/login.php

org.uk :wall: never!

rog2

This is a standard scam - I was receiving them on a regular basis - even from 'Banks' that I did not know existed - 'Fifth Third Bank' for example.
At the time I had 2 email accounts - one with UkGateway (Tiscali) and one with BT Connect. I have, now, cancelled the UkGateway account and am glad to say that all the 'scam' emails - Banks, CreditCard, On-line Pharmacies, Investment Companies and 'Appendage Enlargement Miracles' have now stopped. :beer:
A word of warning - NEVER reply to these emails, or open any attachment. If you have an account with the named bank - go to their main site and check your details that way. Also, report these emails, as abuse, to your Internet provider.

HazelEyes_3

I received a new and rather disturbing variation on the "phishing" e mail - it purported to be from the Co-operative Bank and offered £5GBP for completing a survey. I forwarded it to the Co-op Bank (details are on their website) as I thought it could deceive some people into taking part - and of course it would ask you to enter your bank account details "in order to credit your account with your reward" (my wording not theirs as I didn't click on the link in the e mail!)

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hi Guys,
Please remember two rules of thumb:

1. Financial institutions will normally not email you regarding your bank account.

2. Financial institutions know all your personal details and even if they did email you, they would address you by your name and not "Dear Customer".

Kind regards,
Samara

Anastacia

However just to confuse the issue Egg do actually send emails. They the normally jusr say that you have a secure message waiting for you, so if its more detail than that then its dodgy.

immoral_angeluk

I seem to always get them from banks I don't have accounts with rather than banks I actually use! lol!

loopyloulou_3

I have emailed egg anyway just to let them know.

I hate the thought that these sort of things could catch vunerable people out and defraud them of loads of money.

Molanole

I get four or five of these a day to my work email address, some of them make it through the spam filter, most don't.

What's even more bizarre is our department has a generic email address e.g. enquries@blahblahblah which is not manned by any one person as we all have our own personal email accounts IYSWIM. That email address gets LOADS of banks emailing that their bank account has been compromised. Interesting that something in cyberspace, not even a physical object, can hold a bank account these days eh? Technology, it's amazing....

Verbatim

When I had an egg card I hated the way they sent emails from which you could access their web site. It seemed to be asking for trouble from phishers. Personally I never followed their links from emails and always logged on directly. No longer have an egg card.:D