Natwest online banking?
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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2:59 am
Queenie asked:
I got two emails from this bank on an email address that I don’t usually give out, especially not to places like a bank, saying something about how security is their top priority and asking me to log in (I don’t have an account as far as I know) and “follow the directions on the screen”. What exactly’s going on? I don’t use Natwest banking and the bank I use has my gmail account.
I got two emails from this bank on an email address that I don’t usually give out, especially not to places like a bank, saying something about how security is their top priority and asking me to log in (I don’t have an account as far as I know) and “follow the directions on the screen”. What exactly’s going on? I don’t use Natwest banking and the bank I use has my gmail account.
Tagged with: Gmail Account • Natwest Online Banking • Top Priority
Filed under: Online Banking
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it’s a scam.. do not put your information. or probably a key logger. it will steal your information. just ignore it and delete.
I operate a spam engine for a large company and this is without any doubt SPAM. what has happened here is that you email address has been harvested and added to an automated list ..you will almost certainly find that if you hover you mouse over the link to login that the link is not going to natwest but someone’s website looking to take genuine customers password and credentials.
dont worry, just take the advice of never replying to these emails and you will find that these mails will stop as the next list of targets is created.
It is most certainly spam. Avoid.
It’s a “phishing” scheme that tries to obtain user-names and passwords to peoples online Natwest Bank accounts. Then the information can be used to steal peoples life savings.
The “black-hats” send out millions of these phony e-mails (for a few dollars) and eventually one will go to a real Natwest customer and that customer will be fooled into entering their personal information. Next day…bank account balance is $0.00. Ouch!
I would suggest that you upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer 7. IE-7 has a built in phishing filter that can help in identifying these kind of scams.
The internet can be a very dangerous place…stay careful.