I received a dodgy email from hsbc. take a look

neocon · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:35

Dear Valuable customer.

Please read this message and follow it's instructions.

Unauthorized Account Access
We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM based transaction on your account. Therefore as a preventive measure we have temporary limited your onilne account access to sensitive of Hsbc Bank Plc.
To ensure that your account is not deactivate please login to your account on Hsbc Bank Plc Online Banking by clicking this link to verify your identify.
Please reactive your Online Banking ID.
www.hsbcnet.com/hsbc/home/hsbc-securities-services

This e-mail contains information directly related to your account with us, other services to witch you have subscribed, and/or any application you may have submitted. Hsbc Bank Plc and its service providers are committed to protecting your privacy and will never send you any email ask you to send account information through e-mail.

This message is from HSBC BANK PLC and it is back up FDIC AND SSLQ E-mail ID 1766

Cuchulain · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:36

That's not from HSBC

neocon · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:37

Interesting how they knew I banked with HSBC.

Kell_ee001 · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:40

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“Is This A Scam” Threads

If you have to ask it probably is. Don’t click on links you don’t feel right about. Never enter personal data through anything but the main site and never download anything you haven’t requested. It’s t’internet 101!

Ekim · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:40

neocon said:
Interesting how they knew I banked with HSBC.

They probably don't was just a lucky guess, I get e-mails from Lloyds and other banks, sometimes HSBC too.

Tri-Woo-Ox · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:40

we get about 200 of those kinda emails at work :mad:

Ron Burgundy · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:44

Cuchulain said:
That's not from HSBC

Actually, it is

Its just from the US and not from the UK. Try and enter a username using the same number of digits in the right format i.e. ibxxxxxxxxxx and it will tell you that your log in is incorrect.

Why would a site phishing for details tell you that your log in was incorrect?

Conscript · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:45

neocon said:
To ensure that your account is not deactivate please login to your account on Hsbc Bank Plc Online Banking by clicking this link to verify your identify.

Even if there was any sort of doubt, such poor spelling and grammar is a dead give away

Spacky · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:47

My parents got something from Czech land in the post regarding advertising renewal for £385 it all looked legit but was a total scam, why would my father want to advertise his business in the Czech Republic :confused:

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Cuchulain · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:48

Ron Burgundy said:
Actually, it is

Its just from the US and not from the UK. Try and enter a username using the same number of digits in the right format i.e. ibxxxxxxxxxx and it will tell you that your log in is incorrect.

Why would a site phishing for details tell you that your log in was incorrect?

No, it's not.

The original target of the link was not hsbcnet, I had one this morning in my hotmail account which I deleted, when it was pasted in here as a URL, it assumed that the link was exactly the same as the URL posted.

ajgoodfellow · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:49

It's a scam no doubt about it

Poor grammer, addressed to "Valuable customer", wrong URL, etc

Just ignore it. Whatever you do never follow a link in an e-mail and enter in your personal details

neocon · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:49

It was from

Hsbc Account Update <[email protected]>

WTF?

ajgoodfellow · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:51

It's very easy to fake the e-mail sender's address

Just ignore it

neocon · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:52

Are you saying that <[email protected]> is genuine? But that the email didn't really come from <[email protected]>?

Ron Burgundy · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:54

Cuchulain said:
No, it's not.

The original target of the link was not hsbcnet, I had one this morning in my hotmail account which I deleted, when it was pasted in here as a URL, it assumed that the link was exactly the same as the URL posted.

I repeat

"Why would a site phishing for details tell you that your log in was incorrect?"

ajgoodfellow · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:55

Ron Burgundy said:
I repeat

"Why would a site phishing for details tell you that your log in was incorrect?"

Why would HSBC send a poorly worded impersonal e-mail with an incorrect domain?

Kell_ee001 · 9 Oct 2006 at 09:55

Ron Burgundy said:
I repeat

"Why would a site phishing for details tell you that your log in was incorrect?"

So you'll retype them and then they have your details