bogus email

[catherine_s]

i've just had one of those idiot emails, asking me to send my bank account details in order for my million dollar prize to be deposited into it. it concerns me that there might be some people out there that would fall for it, so could anyone tell me if there is a watchdog company or something like that who i can send the email on to so they can put a stop to it?

[bloodycheap]

I would email your local police force if you suspect fraud.

[fo3nix]

Just delete it, don't bother with anything else. People are well-aware of these scams.

[purplelily]

Hi, the last time I got one of these, I emailed my bank - they then put a message up on their site, so that, when you go online to their website, it now warns you that this email is doing the rounds and to ignore it...

[jake-the-peg]

What you have received is a very crude phish. In fact it's so crude it's almost not a phish at all.

most phish claim to be from eBay or your bank or whatever and say you need to renew your password or account details and give you a link which purports to be that organisation. The link looks like genuine as does the site but in reality it's not and they get your details.

You can report phishs to www.antiphishing.org but often you'll find by the time you've got the mail the website has been taken down anyway.

Most importantly NEVER give any personal details especially financial ones if you've followed a link from another source - No matter how much it looks like a familiar website.

An example - if you followed the link above I just gave you and the browser flickerred a bit and you got the answerbank login screen asking you for your password - would you type it in?

You might be at my website I might get your password - is that important? I don't know - do you use that password elsewhere?

Worth thinking about isn't it?