Bank Fraud Warning!! Just recieved this email sent from services@secure.halifax.co.uk: "Dear Customer Attention! Your Halifax account has been violated! Someone with ip address 149.225.126.87 tried to access your personal account! Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 24 hours to confirm account information or your account will be blocked. To Get Started,Please Click On Restore Your Halifax Account Access. This email was sent by the Halifax Online server to confirm that you are not currently away. This is done for your protection. Halifax Bank Plc. Security Advisor Halifax PLC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. See full details of our guarantee Halifax Bank Plc. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority Register Numbers are 106048, 119223, 171881, 183332 and 189101 Date:30.12.2006 Internet communications are not guaranteed to be secure unless the data being sent is encrypted. Halifax does not accept responsibility for loss arising from unauthorised access to Internet communications and/or the corruption of data by a third party." I thought it was legit due to address and had halifax logo etc on top of email but just on the off chance it wasnt called Halifax to double check before responding. They advised it is not as no bank would ever put that kind of information in an email, and have forwarded it onto them for investigation. The email and address it came from looked real, cant believe i almost responded without checking, can imagine there is a fair few that do
aye Ive had a few of them, always check the email address of every banking type email I get now. Sneaky fuckers! Got one off "ebay" first and fell for it "someone has gained access to your account, please log on and change your password by following this link" They never got anything tho
tbh, if someone had gained access to my account i'd be pretty pissed off if the bank was giving them 24 hours to take all my money
Yeah it was on watchdog months ago, I've had a few even from banks I dont hold an account with. Watchdog have been told of all major banks that they would never ask for personal information by E-mail and not to respond to them. (I'd imagine this would be the same for smaller banks and building societys). It's also been happening with E-bay and paypal. Some poor buggers will fall for it though. Most of them dont have the web page secure icon at the bottom of the screen either which is normally a padlock or somthin like that.
Once the banks find out about it though, there pretty shit hot at getting it stopped. Normally by the time you read the E-mail and just out of interest click the link it wont work.
