followon to drisgirl bank scam

[leggysonogod]

Dear Customer

We're making some exciting changes that will make your online banking experience even better, We therefore request you to verify your location.

Halifax Online Access Verification
Please note that Your Halifax Online Banking has been flagged by our system and all flagged account required verification for Online Banking to remain active due to recent changes we have made to our online banking system.

This verification will allow us to activate new features for your account on our system and to protect your account fully against ID Theft. We have made these changes to ensure only You have access and use your Halifax Account's.

Please click the link below to proceed with verification process.

www.halifax.co.uk/aboutonline/verifyownership.stml

It is all about your security.

Best wishes
Mark Banks
Head of Online

We will never contact customers via email asking to supply any confidential information, telephone or internet banking login details via email that is why we want you to verify your account by our internet automated machine.


click on the link and it takes you APPARENTLY to the halifax site.


im not a halifax member so was suspicious.
open the link then try to click on home at top right

nothing happens.


very convincing tho so beware

[ELVIS68]

Something does happen, while you`re clicking away, some Nigerian bastad is clearing out your account

[squarebear]

Everyone gets these, just delete them.

[daffy654]

I get 5 or 6 of these daily from various 'banks'.They are all obviously phishing scams as I only bank in one place and know that they (or any bank) never email customers in this way.

The spelling,punctuation and grammar nearly always give the game away with the type of email you posted leggy,they obviously have a loose grip on the English language.lol

[squarebear]

Hover your mouse over the link to see what website it will really lead you to.

[hc4361]

Nothing at all convincing about that. Very poor grammar an punctuation.

[squarebear]

The fact that it says Dear Customer rather than your name should set alarm bells ringing.

[ELVIS68]

I got a similar one from "ebay" and smelt a rat straight away after seeing the first line..."Hello, how is you my friend"

[craft1948]

I've had loads of these...........the first one....previewed but not opened actually gave a contact number.......rang a mate at BT who told me this number belonged to Gatwick Airport.................

[leggysonogod]

Its ok i just spoke to chris umbato in the nigerian branch of halifax and he say there is no problems at alls wit my accounting details.I am his friend and he says i can visit anytime as his father is a niegrian prince with a large estate and i can bring to my whole family if i want to.

Pheww sorry about the scare folks

[Drisgirl]

I dont get loads every day and the one I got was actually with a company which I do have connections with so I had no real reason on the spur of the moment to be suspicious.I have the EMails still although I have forwarded to the company as well and I have scrutinised them and there are no errors at all in the EMails.Very professional job.

Apparently they transfer the money in to another account -usually someone they have scammed then bounce the money from the various accounts around until its virtually untraceable.Well thats what I was told anyhow.

I have had the usual Nigerian ones and the badly constructed obvious ones -i'm really not that daft although i do still feel foolish but this was a different ball game -very clever and patently obviously a major 'sting' as I had an EMail from my bank warning me of this particular on-going situation -I have never been warned by my bank regarding a current fraud before.Thats all I can say in my defence for falling for it.Unless you have seen it then you wouldnt seriously believe how easy it was to be duped.

Lesson learnt.