Is this junk?

ins0mn1ac · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:11

Where's the African Fonejacker picture? Sad to have not seen it posted yet!

Hen_Dawg · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:16

JimpsEd said:
Someone need to disconnect your internet.

Yea. Dude, that is so clearly a phishing scam...

Banks never ask you to do this

geeza · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:18

JimpsEd said:
Someone need to disconnect your internet.

sorry im not a complete internet guru/nerd like yourself. (sorry i picked on you, same goes for others)

Also a heads up for anyone else who may get one of these malis

Adam · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:25

geeza said:
sorry im not a complete internet guru/nerd like yourself. (sorry i picked on you, same goes for others)

Also a heads up for anyone else who may get one of these malis

It's nothing to do with being an "internet guru/nerd", infact it's common sense.

Do you think your bank would contact you by email to "verify information"? Secondly, when you hover over the link and it's different to your normal banking address did you not think something was up?

Poor excuse for not taking the time to read through the email and pick up on some very fundamental errors...

m4cc45 · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:30

Gaverick said:
I'd also advise getting firefox, it flashes a scam warning as soon as you go on that site.

So does IE 7 - warns you that the site is a phishing site and explains what it all means.

M.

ots3go · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:46

No, it's not junk.

It's very important and will make me lots of money if you click on my link.

nin9abadga · 7 Feb 2008 at 14:24

Adam said:
It's nothing to do with being an "internet guru/nerd", infact it's common sense.

Do you think your bank would contact you by email to "verify information"? Secondly, when you hover over the link and it's different to your normal banking address did you not think something was up?

Poor excuse for not taking the time to read through the email and pick up on some very fundamental errors...

exactly. from the halifax website:

* First and foremost, Halifax would never send you an email asking you to verify your secure online banking details. Any email asking you to 'verify your account', 'confirm your sign in details', or using a similar form of words, is certainly a scam.

http://www.halifax.co.uk/securityandprivacy/phishing.asp

gumbald · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:26

Gaverick said:
I'd also advise getting firefox, it flashes a scam warning as soon as you go on that site.

It didn't when I first went on it... Has done since.

Tony Williams · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:31

Heh, phising - I get them all the time.

Feef · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:35

Heh, if you click the home link in the top right corner of the phishing page, it takes you to the Halifax homepage - when I did this, there was a GIANT ORANGE BANNER at the bottom telling you to beware of email scams

ErNciLator · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:42

i always make a script and spam these with stupid username/passwords for a while.

gumbald · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:44

I could only be bothered to do it a few times. Scripts are effort for annoying scammers

Sic · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:46

ErNciLator said:
i always make a script and spam these with stupid username/passwords for a while.

yeah, that's the way to stop spam - more spam. Like using a pencil as an eraser

Hen_Dawg · 13 Feb 2008 at 11:03

I just checked my hotmail to see the emails below. Before I send all my 4 banks my details, can anyone tell me if it's likely all my banks would send me emails like this all in one day?

hehe

MikGriff · 13 Feb 2008 at 13:14

deleted said:
Where's the African Fonejacker picture? Sad to have not seen it posted yet!

Peño · 13 Feb 2008 at 13:42

You can tell by the first line, the fact they havn't address you by name.