Phishing Scam e mails

missile

I feel banks should tackle this issue.

From:Halifax Internet Banking (onlinesecurity@halifax.co.uk)
Halifax E-mail Alert

Dear Halifax Customer,

We recently reviewed your account, and noticed that your Halifax account
details needs to be updated.

Due to this, you are requested to follow the provided steps to confirm your
Online Banking details,phone numbers for the safety of your Accounts.

Simply click Secure Account to secure your Internet Banking details.

Secure Account

Thank you for banking with us.

Customer Services,
Halifax Bank Plc.

mjm3346

Getting loads for the "Halifax" at the moment, probably be better if you did not have the link in your post, someone may click on it.

Butterfly_Brain

All banks have a fraud department and the best thing to do is to forward the email to the bank in question

crazyguy

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

All banks have a fraud department and the best thing to do is to forward the email to the bank in question

Trouble with that is they go in an endless line and all you have is Bob at the end of it,

lollipopsarah

Funny, hubby got one of these yesterday and they are not even his bank, luckily he junked it.
I hate these things.
x

older_wiser

My parents get at least one scam email per day from halifax and others as long as your bank has your landline and mobile number any emails like this should be ignored. If there was a problem you would hope your bank would make contact ASAP.

missile

I am well aware that one should ignore phising e mails. My point is banks should tackle the issue.

It is not that difficult to identify the originators IP address. They could at least try to track originators and shut down their internet access.

tagq2

The scammers will be working offshore and the banks are not yet the police.

It would be nice to see more cooperation between police forces but education to protect account holders is paramount. Anything else, missile, is just an arms race :P.

Lost2

I usually bounce them back

missile

tagq2 wrote: »

The scammers will be working offshore and the banks are not yet the police.

It would be nice to see more cooperation between police forces but education to protect account holders is paramount. Anything else, missile, is just an arms race :P.

I see reports of police tracking pedophiles overseas. They can track livestock from craddle to the supermarket shelves. They can track what websites I visit and target me with spam.

I don't think it is beyond the capability of the banks to work with the ISPs to close off the scammer e mail accounts.

dtsazza

missile wrote: »

I don't think it is beyond the capability of the banks to work with the ISPs to close off the scammer e mail accounts.

And I think it is.

You seem to forget that the people sending the phishing emails are both technologically literate, and don't really want to co-operate with being identifiable.

You also overlook that email as a medium was never designed for secure, verifiable exchange.

The only way that phishing emails could be stamped out is some wholesale technological reform - such as everybody insisting on emails being cryptographically signed with a verified key, and auto-deleting unsigned mails. Or a move to a more robust electronic messaging system altogether. (Neither is going to happen due to the network effect.)

Of course, using a webmail service such as GMail goes a long way to preventing you seeing phishing mails due to unintentional crowdsourcing; it only takes a few people to report a mail as spam before the remainder of users won't see it in their inboxes.



But fundamentally, it's not possible to solve. (And if you disagree with that, please list in detail the steps that you'd take to address it, and explain why the spammers wouldn't be able to get around them using their know-how and powerful botnets.)