How to know if a Bank website is real or fake
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Wester
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When you login to your Bank website how can you be 100% certain that you are not logging in to fake copycat website ?
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Is there a certain bank you are thinking of going with ?0
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You'd make sure you had gone to the right address.
So something like https://www1.firstdirect.com/online/#/authentication/username
And not https://www.fristdirect.net/phishingpage/enterdetails
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Use a bookmark/favourite.Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.0
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As banks periodically change their URL, I thought that using a bookmark could lead you to visiting an unsecure site.I work within the voluntary sector, supporting vulnerable people to rebuild their lives.
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You know it's a fake one when, on logging into your account and putting in incorrect details, it appears to let you in.0
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Check the URL.
Check the SSL certificate.0 -
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Willing2Learn wrote: »As banks periodically change their URL, I thought that using a bookmark could lead you to visiting an unsecure site.
If you mean bookmarking http:/example.bank when the URL has changed to https:/example.bank, you should be automatically redirected to the secure site (and then change the bookmark).Eco Miser
Saving money for well over half a century0
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