Weird Tesco Bank CD

Gers

I've posted this on the Banking board too, hope some techie may have heard of this.

My postie brought me a padded envelope with my details handwritten though in a strange format.

The only (no letter or comps slip etc) item in the envelope is a CD with the following printed on the front of it:

Letter
Tesco Bank

then my surname (well part of it)
then a number (no relation to any bank account number)

Of course, I haven't put this CD into my laptop and do not intend to do that. I phoned Tesco Bank and spoke to a customer service agent who was baffled by this.

Has anyone else had this? Is this a new type of 'let's load a virus onto a laptop' thing?

AndyPix

Im totally intrigued by this


I wonder if its some new attempt at phishing etc ?


I hope someone here knows ..


If not - do you know how to make a linux live USB so you can boot from that and insert the CD with no risk to your OS and see whats on it?

Gers

AndyPix wrote: »

If not - do you know how to make a linux live USB so you can boot from that and insert the CD with no risk to your OS and see whats on it?

No, I don't. I'll happily pass it onto a techie person.

I suspect it COULD be a ransomware type thing - no real idea.

[Deleted User]

Strange, never heard of this before but phoning a bank even after a full blown legit letter or phone call still leaves them baffled so that's nothing new.

Any photos of this?

tafelmoneysaver

It seems a lot of effort to go to to load malware onto a CD.

My guess would be that is it a copy of your, or similarly named customer, account data which has been mailed to you in error.

For example, it could be the output of a Subject Access Request or results of a PPI claim investigation and was sent to you rather than going to archive.

Loading Linux from a Live CD and taking a look at the contents would be the action I would take.

Gers

tafelmoneysaver wrote: »

It seems a lot of effort to go to to load malware onto a CD.

My guess would be that is it a copy of your, or similarly named customer, account data which has been mailed to you in error.

For example, it could be the output of a Subject Access Request or results of a PPI claim investigation and was sent to you rather than going to archive.

Loading Linux from a Live CD and taking a look at the contents would be the action I would take.

Mmmm, the number on the CD bears no relation to any of my Tesco Bank numbers. And my name is not correct and the address on the envelope is also weird - name, house, village, county, town and the postcode.

No letter inside and it’s in a padded bag.

I’ve not made a SAR nor a PPI claim.

shaun_from_Africa

Have a word with a few of your friends to see if any of them have an old laptop that they never use sitting around gathering dust somewhere.
You may well find someone willing to lend you something suitable but make sure that they are aware of why you want it and that the disc may possibly contain something nasty.

spud17

You don't say if you are or were a customer of Tesco bank.:)

[Deleted User]

You've just said that the name was wrong and the number wasn't any of your account numbers. So as already said, it probably wasn't meant for you.

Stop being a wuss and pop it into your computer and browse the disc, just don't run any .exe files. I would have by now as the suspense would kill me.

Chino

Destroy the CD as best you can (in case it does contain someone's personal data) and forget about it.

John_Gray

This sounds like a rather messier equivalent of someone discarding a virus-infected USB Flash Drive in the car park, just to see which person will pick it up and put it into their computer...

If you find out what's on the CD, what good will it do you? It's purely curiosity. Put it in a strong plastic bag and hit it with a hammer to shatter it.