OMG Bank of Scotland Fake Website!! Money stolen. Has anyone heard of this?

moni72

albertross wrote: »

The last step redirects you to the real site for you to re-enter your passwords, which is why it shows the real balance.

Hope you have changed all your security details, on the real site, and any other sites that use the same details!

If they mistyped the url, It is phishing, not a trojan, so you owe some people an apology, they do know more about the subject than your BOS rep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

It is a bit of a joke that these sites were allowed to be registered at all. It's even more of a joke that BOS and the "authorities" aren't apparently actively looking for them, the site was registered on 9/8/2006, and another one that it redirects to on 4/10/07

Thanks for the advice. She has made sure that all of her user details are removed from the bank. Although there is the worry tat they do have some personal informatio and where else they could use it?!

Unfortunatey the Bank didn't suggest anything to handle this though, they weren't very helpful at all in respect of what happened. I would have expected them to say exactly what the process wasc for dealing with this and make recommendations to her to minimise any further damage.

I do apologise if I am getting the terminology wrong (I was rather upset at the time by the reaction I got from two money-savers) but when I quoted "phishing" to the BOS Online Banking representative he said - 'no it's not quite phishing that's more associated with emails, this is a trojan virus which attaches itself to your computer etc etc. So I was only paraphrasing what he told me. I do understand, given the definition of phishing, that basically that's what she was the victim of albeit there seems to be some sort of program in action too that re-directed her to the genuine site.

Alfie_E

Someone wrote the same in Comments on ‘Consumer revenge site returns after DDoS attack’ on The Register. I’m just passing by to see if the thread is still here. …and, moni72, you should in no way feel responsible.

ukdutypaid

There's no way a fake site could show YOUR own account.......
May very well have passed the details you typed in, into the fields of your own proper bank and they of course retain the details and then suck you're account, afterwards...