Phishing?

Yes, he is. One way to tell - pass your mouse over the 'link' and watch the status line at the bottom of your mail client/web browser. You'll see something that looks vaguely like the 'real' URL, but usually with a twist, like http://www.visacompany.com.grognard.ru What will happen is that you'll be going to grognard.ru if you click on it. The rest is throw-away.

Another way to tell is that it is addressed to "Dear Customer." Anf frankly, I never click on any link in an email. If my credit card company wants to contact me, they can send me a letter.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
I get these phishing expeditions too - although not from any one "bank" in particular.

I bank with Citibank for day-to-day services and they make it clear that they NEVER send e-mails to customers. The only way they will try to contact you is by posting a notice for you when you access your account via their secure website.

I imagine most other real banks do the same.
 
I got the same sort of thing from some cheese allegedly from teh HSBC Bank alaong the lines of. 'Your account has been suspended' follow the link to re activate it blah blah..' HSBC are hot on fraud and are quick to phone if the smell a rat.

The worry is that these e-mails go to all sorts of people who are not internet savvy and get burned badly by it.

I'm also getting more of those 'clear some money through another country' scams. The stories can be quite amusing though and the emotional blackmail variations are sometime creative.
 
Yes, whilst I've received plenty of phishing e-mails from Barclays, Halifax, HSBC and CitiGroup (with whom I work) - they are fairly easy to identify. However, in the past couple of weeks I've also been receiving a spate of fake "returned mail advise notes" - with no connexion to anything I've sent. Has anyone else been in receipt of similar stuff - and any ideas of who is sending or likely motive?

Thanks and regards,
Mike.
 
f.stops.here said:
Yes, whilst I've received plenty of phishing e-mails from Barclays, Halifax, HSBC and CitiGroup (with whom I work) - they are fairly easy to identify. However, in the past couple of weeks I've also been receiving a spate of fake "returned mail advise notes" - with no connexion to anything I've sent. Has anyone else been in receipt of similar stuff - and any ideas of who is sending or likely motive?

Thanks and regards,
Mike.
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A lot of them, often stripped from suspicious contents at my mailserver......
Others are real returns responding to automatic denial mails sent by a my link and guestbook modules. I just denied about 50 entries from casinos, maybe I should visit these sites once because I got promised a 100% chance to get rich and that would help to satisfy my GAS 😀
 
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