Email from Barclays

lacuna1

I received a reply overnight. Maybe i should send one back saying please don't add links in your emails.



Thanks for your email.

I can confirm this is a genuine Barclay’s email.

Kind regards,

Ashleigh Cockburn
Barclays Bank PLC

durhamviper

Security
We will never send you an email asking you to send us personal data, passcodes, PINs or PINsentry Codes. If you receive an email like this claiming to be from Barclays, you should not reply to it or follow any links it contains just forward it to internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk and then delete it. Links in our emails will only take you to pages containing information about Barclays products, services or partners. If such a page is part of another company's website, that company's terms, conditions and privacy policies will apply.

The above is actually included in the email. Although it says that links will only take you to 'official' pages, it is assuming that the recipient trusts that the email is legitimately from Barclays. It is surely this blind acceptance that scammers wish to achieve to get people to follow seemingly legitimate links which are actually malicious and compromise security on online bank accounts.

Vortigern

durhamviper wrote: »

The above is actually included in the email. Although it says that links will only take you to 'official' pages, it is assuming that the recipient trusts that the email is legitimately from Barclays.

Absolutely right. I don't think people realise how easy it is to create a fake email that looks legitimate.

mt99

Actually for me there is only one golden rule on the internet:

Never, and I mean never, really really mean never, click any links in an email.

TrustyOven

mt99 wrote: »

Actually for me there is only one golden rule on the internet:

Never, and I mean never, really really mean never, click any links in an email.

Good luck if you need to reset your password on any site then!

Some of the links probably come with with text that is different to the href, so you wont be able to just copy/paste the text either, you'd have to look at the html source for it.