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Road Runner

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I find it amazing that most emails re banking I get asking my banking details are generally the banks i use, how do they know this?

Surely it not all guess work.
 

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If they want my overdraft that bad they are welcome:ROFLMAO:

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I find it amazing that most emails re banking I get asking my banking details [HI]are generally the banks i use[/HI], how do they know this?

I find exactly the opposite, most of them are the banks I DON'T use, which suggests that if they email enough people they'll get some right.

Anyway I've spoken with Coutts and whilst they have started on-line banking they will never contact me by email, it will always be written in Indian Ink (occasionally my blood) with a Quill on Parchment.
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Maybe you've been unlucky John, the scam e mails I get are generally every bank except the one I'm with.
I would never let them know I'm with RBS :RollEyes:
Don't tell him Pike :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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Most of them I receive are not from Banks that I bank with, but as I have accounts with several different banks I do occasionally get some from the banks that I use.

It's just pot luck...


Actually, it's blanket bombing, eventually they will hit someone who sadly is caught unawares...

Stay Alert.......

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Jim

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It's just a shotgun effect John. They are sending millions They do get lucky or they would have given up by now. You just have to remain switched on, let your guard down for a moment and you let them in.

I almost got caught a little while ago, I had just withdrawn some money from my paypal account, then just by a fluke in the next ten minutes I received a paypal email saying my withdrawal had been stopped due to insufficient funds. Because it came when it did I was microseconds of clicking the link before I realised it was a spoof. I've since had the same mail about 4 times:RollEyes:
 
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Thanxs all i just wondered if it was like the ads that appear mirroring items you have looked up on the web....
 
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I just had one from the HM Revenue and Customs, I always ignore those , a government scam :ROFLMAO:

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I get these messages all the time (supposedly) from several different banks, none of which I have an account with.

In addition I don't do Internet banking anyway and never will as long as I have the choice. I spent too much time working in information security to trust any bank's on-line system. Apart from any risk of exposure to fraud there is the risk of hardware failure which isn't uncommon.
 

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Its only people that are to blame, not technology. Roll back twenty years, you saw something you liked in a magazine or paper, so you ordered it and sent them a cheque,...so now someone has your name address, your sort code, bank account No, and the sequence No of the cheques you are using and your bankers name..........sh*t, they would pay good money for that info nowadays.::bigsmile:

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A good freind of mine is a behind the scenes manager at Coutts ( yes ... the bank, not the dog food place ! ) yet he still rides to his office on a motorcycle every day :thumb:
 

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A good freind of mine is a behind the scenes manager at Coutts ( yes ... the bank, not the dog food place ! ) yet he still rides to his office on a motorcycle every day :thumb:

Which is great to know if you get a suspect e- mail:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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It's just a shotgun effect John. They are sending millions They do get lucky or they would have given up by now. You just have to remain switched on, let your guard down for a moment and you let them in.

I almost got caught a little while ago, I had just withdrawn some money from my paypal account, then just by a fluke in the next ten minutes I received a paypal email saying my withdrawal had been stopped due to insufficient funds. Because it came when it did I was microseconds of clicking the link before I realised it was a spoof. I've since had the same mail about 4 times:RollEyes:

I recently got one from Paypal, shortly after making a purchase, saying my registered credit/debit card was due to expire....and would i please update it :Eeek:

almost clicked the link but opened PP in a new window using their URL, just to check, knowing my card didnt expire until 2013

sure enough......registered card expires 2013.

had this email a few times now. :Angry:
 
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I find it amazing that most emails re banking I get asking my banking details are generally the banks i use, how do they know this?

Surely it not all guess work.
easy just type in name account Number and sort code on here :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
we would never use information given on a forum now would we :thumb::thumb:
 

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I recently got one from Paypal, shortly after making a purchase, saying my registered credit/debit card was due to expire....and would i please update it :Eeek:

almost clicked the link but opened PP in a new window using their URL, just to check, knowing my card didnt expire until 2013

sure enough......registered card expires 2013.

had this email a few times now. :Angry:

Forward any dodgy emails purporting to be from from paypal to spoof@paypal.com They always thank you if its a spoof:thumb:

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I have had it on my Abbey account

Have not had it on other banks, but certainly on an Abbey account I have and use... seemed to be know I used internet banking.

Have had a fair few Paypal's and always seem to be after I have purchased something as well.

It does worry me.

Bob
 
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easy just type in name account Number and sort code on here :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
we would never use information given on a forum now would we :thumb::thumb:

Sort 03-79-09

Account number 35479809

01-14

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Hope this helps you can share my overdraft:winky:
 

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My bank contacted me on Saturday to check 6 transfers to the parent bank, starting at £10 and rising to £990, a total in excess of £3,000. I knew nothing about them, but it just happened to coincide with a Pension Lump Sum credit on Friday, so the money was available.

Apparently they were using my Debit Card details which I do not use for Online banking, apart from it being the link to my current account for PayPal.
Prior to retiring (early, I stress :thumb:) I had a cash rich business so had no need to use ATM's (yes HMRC, it's all accounted for :Angry:), but now I use ATM's and, apart from a telephone order for cooker parts, this seems the most likely route for this scam, assuming that PayPal is secure :whatthe:
I always check the ATM for false slots and cameras, but how can you tell when they've fitted a whole false front.

Not a nice experience but all credit to my bank who had spotted it, frozen the transfers, removed the account from online banking and stopped my Debit Card. With my agreement they have passed the details to the Police. My account was unfrozen within an hour and back online. Yesterday I received a new Debit Card (quick or not :Eeek:) and later a text to say that all the money was back in my account. Today I have received a letter detailing and confirming all this action.

Trouble is that they are going to receive a letter from another bank telling them that I'm switching accounts. I posted the forms on Saturday :Doh:

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