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Bank warns of 'phishing'
A Corsham bank is warning people to beware of Internet fraud after several customers complained of receiving dodgy e-mails.
Reg Burnard, who lives in Shockerwick, received an e-mail about online banking claiming to be from his bank, NatWest.
The motoring journalist immediately smelt a rat and contacted the Corsham branch of NatWest.
He said: "I am a NatWest customer but I haven't used online banking for about four years and I registered with a different e-mail address than the one this e-mail was sent to. I don't know how they got the other address.
"The e-mail, entitled account notice,' asked me to confirm personal details. But there were lots of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.
"I rang the bank and they said they have had quite a few of these and they gave me an e-mail address to forward it to.
"One reads all sorts of things about data being lost, it's quite worrying. I'm sure that if this e-mail has gone to people who aren't quite so observant, many people will actually fall for it."
A spokesman for NatWest confirmed the Corsham branch had received several reports of these e-mails - which are known in the industry as phishing e-mails.
The spokesman said: "We would never ask customers to provide us with this type of information by e-mail.
"We would urge any customer receiving an e-mail requesting such information not to open it or reply to the sender of the message."
Instead attach it to a new e-mail and send it to phishing@natwest.com.
1:54pm Thursday 6th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: who dat? on 5:18pm Thu 6 Mar 08
News obviously travels slowly to Corsham - the rest of the world knew about these scams years ago!
News obviously travels slowly to Corsham - the rest of the world knew about these scams years ago!
Posted by: Grant, Marlborough on 9:24pm Thu 6 Mar 08
its not the phishing scams that are the scandal its the **** Banks that are the pirates!
I got charged £76 today for a failed direct debit!
its not the phishing scams that are the scandal its the **** Banks that are the pirates!
I got charged £76 today for a failed direct debit!
Posted by: andy, melksham on 12:19pm Fri 7 Mar 08
ive had 2 attempts to give out personal information under different business names e-mailed to me this week with the tag line 'personal details have changed'.
please log in to correct or verify.
security alert bla bla.
add them to your junk filter banned list and delete without opening.
ive had 2 attempts to give out personal information under different business names e-mailed to me this week with the tag line 'personal details have changed'.
please log in to correct or verify.
security alert bla bla.
add them to your junk filter banned list and delete without opening.
Posted by: donteventhinkit, Corsham on 12:17pm Sat 8 Mar 08
I have had these from all different banks i never reply to them with details i just type in the banks name find the main site and look for the reporting bit about emails i then email them the item i was sent it takes 5 minutes. The only way to stop them is to get them shut down the only way to shut them down is to report them.
I have had these from all different banks i never reply to them with details i just type in the banks name find the main site and look for the reporting bit about emails i then email them the item i was sent it takes 5 minutes. The only way to stop them is to get them shut down the only way to shut them down is to report them.
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