Hsbc Scam

[malagabob]

Received a txt with message as follows.
HSBC A payment was attempted from a NEW DEVICE on 24/05 at 15:48. If this was NOT YOU, please visit:
https://www.hsbc.secure-revokpayee.com
A scam or what Tried phoning hsbc fraud but no luck. Kept on hold for ages.

[Jackdaw33]

Obviously a scam. Clicking on the link brings up the message, "We are having trouble in finding this site".

[Mamyalynne]

* message to anyone reporting a potential scam, don't include clickable links.

Someone will always be tempted.

[malagabob]

For future reference, how do you copy/type what the ink is but not have it come up as a clickable link?

[Mamyalynne]

Miss some characters out at the start or end or simply say, it then asked me to click on a link - in this case that mentioned 'revokpayee'.

[Mamyalynne]

Bad news that the fraud department isn't responding, poor show.

[Buenchico]

For a link to be 'clickable', it needs the 'http' (or 'htttps') bit at the front.

e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk is clickable but www.bbc.co.uk isn't.

[malagabob]

Thanks Chris and Mamy

[Buenchico]

Your link is dead anyway and secure-revokpayee.com never seems to have been registered as a domain name. So the scammers have either got ahead of themselves, and started sending out texts before they've registered the domain, or they've mis-typed something in the text.

Either way, they're not very good at what they're doing!

[Chinajan]

I don't believe any bank or legitimate organisation would include a link to click if they wanted to alert you. They would ask you to contact them separately as you rightly did OP.

[Etch]

malagabob has probably mistyped the URL, missing out the 'e' of 'revoke'. I think the intended link is:
www.hsbc.secure-revokepayee.com
which does go to a 'look alike' HSBC site.

[Buenchico]

The 'secure-revokepayee.com' domain name was only registered at 1326 today (unsurprisingly using an Icelandic privacy service, to hide the registrant's details).

[Barsel]

Something here about it.
https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/security-centre/received-a-text/

[Ken4155]

Glasses need a clean, i think. Read it as HSBC scum:-(

[Barsel]

Ken, I read words wrong all the time lately.