Well, I checked out the Abbey business account online (because they are the only one that offers free lifetime banking for business), but ever since I checked out the site, I am now getting fictitious emails from abbey (not really abbey though), asking for username and password (I haven't actually created an account yet). This cannot just be coincidence, anyone else had this happen?
I havent had any but i think you should contact abbey (the real one) and ask if they ever ask for your username and password via email to be on the safe side
Actually, none of the banks ask for confirmation of username and password. The money programme on BBC2 pointed this out, they get asked this a lot.
Here in holland we had the same problem with "De Postbank" online.. they were sending emails to your email address asking for you to click on a link and login with your name + password.. to bad it was announced on the official website.. so not much harm was done.. If I remember correctly it were some russian hackers that tried this scam.. excuse me if I'm wrong
It's been tried just about everywhere. "Phishing" is rapidly becoming one of the most prevalent scams in existance, barring politics.
I was trying to find out how they started sending me Abbey fake spam only hours after I looked at the Abbey web site. It's not Abbey, so how did a third party manage to do this?
Probably just weird co-incidence. I regularly get this sort of rubbish pretending to be from financial institutions - some I've never heard of and none that I do any business with. To be safe, never respond to one of these or use the links contained. Always go to the official website of your nominated financial institution and login via there. Even if it is legit (which we know they aren't) you wouldn't be losing anything by using the offical link.
I get phishing attemps from "paypal" to addresses I don't have paypal accounts on and from banks that I'm not a member of. No financial institution will EVER contact you via email regarding login information or credit card numbers. Most make that fairly clear of that when you sign up for an online account with them. If in doubt, see if the link goes to where it should be (look for xx.xx.xx.xx/login/scamyou~www.paypal.com or something like that). IIRC there's a Firefox plugin that will also show if the address you're at is spoofed.
Ive got them from a couple of banks (supposedly) in the US. made me laugh as I've never even been to the banks websites let alone the US
I have had hundreds from private investors asking to give them my bank details so they can put £13 million in my bank account for safety, lol didnt fall for it
I hope you all report these emails. I have had countless ones from 'Paypal' but after reporting them they (the fake URLs you click on) are dead within the hour. @Firehed- Easiest thing is to check the colour of the address bar, it goes yellow for a secure site with no plugins needed.
nope theres a way show it's a secure site even if it's not... and spoof them... so you could have made a https://paypal.com....
bring up a console, whack in netstat -a that will show you all network connections, look for any remote hosts you don't expect to be connected too.
if you've got something nasty installed on ur system, you can't be sure, you can do the "DNS trick" which is were a nasty program changes ur Domain Name Resolution. So ur browser sees paypal.com, but really ur not there. This is often used now because of "memorable information" stopping people getting keyloggers What happens is, they will either ask you all ur memorable info (with incorrect please try again, until they get it all) or more sufistactedly, turn ur machine into a proxy, which forwards requests to the bank, then when u click logoff it dosen't it flags it to someone, who uses the same interface u were, which has u logged in already, to steal ur stuff.
