Abbey account fishing

[dazedhorizon]

here is the latest abbey fish that I have just received. As I work for MBNA that manages the Abbey CC account. Please be aware.



when you hover over the image in the email it gives an ip address of not a url.




Please be careful.

This has been reported to Abbey.

Don't want to see anyone hit by this shoddy attempt.

[Nick F]

Looks quite like the abbey screen as well, I really hope software developers manage to find a way to block all incoming spam and emails like this one.

[iMc]

So many people must get caught out by these...

The email companies/providers and banks should get together and take major steps to sort this out. After all its innocent people's hard earned at stake and banks like HSBC make billions of £££'s in profit.

[Nick F]

heh just found this, well worth posting

[MD]

hmm had a look at the code, pretty poor attempt to rip tbh.

Hosted on some site in spain, I doubt it will last wery long, the IP range goes to baluma.com

m@

[5lab]

apparently there is a virus going round *somewhere* which changes your hosts file, so even if you type the address (ie www.hsbc.co.uk) in correctly, it still sends you to the wrong site..

[shiato storm]

yes I read something about it in new scientist, the new way of attacking us normal people is to effectively 'steal' traffic before it gets to a site by using the same web address but in actual fact its a fake one that when you give your card details they get all your money...quite clever in some ways but its really nasty.

[Kumagoro]

I got that abbey one a couple of months ago I sent an email to them about it.

[grimpy]

got one of these a few days ago.

[KnightWhoSaysNi]

I had one recently. The first hook in my river of email.

[Dave2986]

dazedhorizon, can you please tell me why abbey put that annyoing you are not using a supported browser message when you go to log on and are using FF?

[xs11ax]

get em allthe time