fake nationwide building society emails

bonnieheather

I received this in my emails today, daft thing is i aint got a nationwide acount lol, hope this is the correct place to post it, if not please feel free to move it
anyway here it is

Dear Customer,

It has come to our attention that your account billing updates are out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records now.
Please personalise your Nationwide account as soon as you can. When personalising your account, you will be able to select your own Personal Message and update your email address. Additionally, at this site you will find more information regarding the service and participating merchants.

If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to verify your identity.


www.nationwide.co.uk/nationwide.co.uk/olb2.nationet.com/Updating/default1.aspID=381cfed80bc993c7a6e30a33cd7aec24f15.htm


If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporaly delete your account in our record,

Thank you.
Nationwide Building Society Customer Service Centre


bonnie

deanos

i know you are trying to be helpfull but there is no point posting about this email, thousands get sent every day

millie

I get them several times a week supposedly from Royal Bank of Scotland & have had them from other banks too. I just delete the without even looking at them.

Rogerb_2

deanos wrote: »

i know you are trying to be helpfull but there is no point posting about this email, thousands get sent every day

I disagree - it's always good to warn people of the problem, as not everybody is financially astute.

My wife seems to get these a lot, and they seem to be getting ever more clever in the wording.

dealer_wins

If it is addressed to me personally I give it a quick look as it could possibly be genuine, but otherwise I just bin them immediately.

vikingaero

Sometimes if I get a free 5 minutes I fill them out even though I've never had a Nationwide account!

bonnieheather

i know some people are savvy when it comes to spam emails, but i also know that others like my dad would be panicing if he got this in his emails....

squashy

If in doubt I would log onto the main nationwide web page (without clicking the link, just type into the browser)

Any genuine mailouts should be copied onto there, you could even find the "contact us" botton on thier site and ask if it's genuine.

RadoJo

vikingaero wrote: »

Sometimes if I get a free 5 minutes I fill them out even though I've never had a Nationwide account!

You really should avoid any response to fraudulent e-mails, and try not to open them if you can identify them. The very fact that you submit data means that the spammers now know the address they have sent the spam to is 'live', not to mention the spyware, viruses and potential information gathering software which could be installed on your computer just by interacting with these messages.
Clicking on links is also a no-no, even if you want to see where they go, as this also leaves your computer vulnerable to malware.

C_Ronaldo

Just delete the emails