Halifax Phishing email

ElfinAngels

Hi All
Just to warn you I've received following phishing email from .......- I'm not even a Halifax customer.







Dear customer,

Halifax PLC. has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorized
use of the Halifax Online accounts. As a result we are making an extra security
check on all of our Customers account in order to protect their information from
theft and fraud.

Due to this, you are requested to follow the provided steps and confirm your Online
Banking details for the safety of your Accounts. Please.

..........

However, Failure to do so may result in temporary account suspension. Please understand
that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

Important Notice:- You are strictly advised to match your Security Question and Answers rightly to avoid service suspension.

Thank You.
Halifax Online Banking Customer Services

f you are not a UK resident, or are trying to access this site from outside the UK, please read this ....... Halifax plc, Registered in England No.2367076. Registered Office: Trinity Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX1 2RG

carol_money_saving_newbie

I have received this as well I do bank with halifax and rang them they asked me to forward it on to them (which I have done) and then delete it. Also said to make sure I do a virus scan as well.

superscaper

These are sent to millions of addresses every day all year around, along with thousands of other variants of phishing scams. If this is the first than consider yourself lucky, but well over 90% of all email is spam so probably just better giving a general warning that there are phishing emails and never enter any details (login) by clicking on a link or replying directly rather than necessarily needing to specify each of the thousands of phishing emails that are currently going around.

Personally I'd just delete it, it's a complete disproportionate waste of time reporting spam. The banks are well aware of the existence of these emails as they've been around for years.

If you're actually that bothered then the most effective thing is to report it here http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/. Sending it to specific banks is rather inefficient and most don't really know what to do with the info anyway.

Oh and you may want to edit out the actual scam link in case anyone accidentally clicks on it and thinks it's the genuine site.

ElfinAngels

superscaper wrote: »

Oh and you may want to edit out the actual scam link in case anyone accidentally clicks on it and thinks it's the genuine site.

Links edited out as suggested.

This is the first time that I've had a bank phishing mail and thought it wise to warn others.

sillyvixen

got a very simular one claiming to be from natwest bank. like the op i have never delt with them..i have never had anything like it before but if i get any thing similer from my own bank i will be strait on the phone to them.

superscaper

sillyvixen wrote: »

but if i get any thing similer from my own bank i will be strait on the phone to them.

But you won't get one from your bank. It's just someone pretending to be all the different banks. If you just happen to get one from a bank you use then it's just coincidence and the banks are already well aware of it. I've seen the Natwest ones going around for years. Saw one to one of my addresses just this morning in fact. It's not really any different than any other spam but how many of those do you report? I've given the most effective reporting method in my above link. They specialise in bank phishing scams. Contacting your own bank is quite frankly a waste of time and disproportionate use of your energy. They are neither equipped to track down the perpetrators nor are capable of preventing phishing emails.

FlameCloud

You can always tell fake Halifax ones as they continue to say Halifax Plc on the bottom of them. Halifax Plc ceased to exist last year, it should now say something about being a division of Bank of Scotland Plc.

sillyvixen

superscaper wrote: »

But you won't get one from your bank. It's just someone pretending to be all the different banks.

what i ment is if i ever get one that uses the name of the bank i use.. i was well aware of what this was as it was an email pretending to be from a bank that i have never has any dealings with.

superscaper

sillyvixen wrote: »

what i ment is if i ever get one that uses the name of the bank i use.. i was well aware of what this was as it was an email pretending to be from a bank that i have never has any dealings with.

But reporting it to your own bank is no more effective than reporting ones from other banks. As I said report it to people who actually deal with phishers rather than contacting your bank. My point is you say you'll report it if it happened to be your own bank but where's the logic in that unless you've reported the natwest one as well? Surely it's equally as bad.

IWasWondering...

I've had the NatWest one a couple of times. I just delete them and forget about them.

trisontana

I have just received one supposedly from the tax-man wanting to give me a £200 refund. All I have to do is give them all my credit-card details, including the security code. I wonder if anyone will fall for that?