Fraud warning - Nationwide

[Steven W]

Had one of these emails today. The normal business asking you to key in your details. Beware!

Dear Valued Customer,

Nationwide Bank is committed to maintaining a safe environment for
its community of our customers. To protect the security of your account,
Nationwide Employs some of the best advanced security systems in the world
and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Nationwide Bank system
for any unusual activity.

In accordance with Nationwide user Agreement and to ensure that your Online Banking Profile
is Secure, access to your account has been limited.
In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may
require some specific information for you in order to verify your identity.

You are advised to immediately log in and reactivate your account by following the link below:

[steve threlfall]

They still cant quite crack the spelling and grammar can they

[Elessar_VPR]

For the record Nationwide will include your post code in any emails they send you.

[chrestomanci]

For the record Nationwide will include your post code in any emails they send you.

If the scammers knew what they where doing, they could cross reference that from some where else. In my case they could easily get my full address from the DNS records for my domain.

If in doubt, phone the number printed on your card (or bank statement or chequebook). I would never trust an email from a bank to be genuine.

My wife and I have a joint account with Smile.co.uk (Run by the Co-Op bank) when ever they send a message, they send a plain text email asking us to log in to see it.

[TheAnimus]

If the scammers knew what they where doing, they could cross reference that from some where else. In my case they could easily get my full address from the DNS records for my domain.

If in doubt, phone the number printed on your card (or bank statement or chequebook). I would never trust an email from a bank to be genuine.

My wife and I have a joint account with Smile.co.uk (Run by the Co-Op bank) when ever they send a message, they send a plain text email asking us to log in to see it.

yes but luckily at present that type of data mining isn't cost effective. I hope it never will be.

[tiggerai]

I don't think I've ever HAD a genuine email from my bank... that I recall... I've only been phished once too.

Must be all those inappropriate sites you lot look at!

[chrestomanci]

I don't think I've ever HAD a genuine email from my bank... that I recall... I've only been phished once too.

Must be all those inappropriate sites you lot look at!

I do have online accounts with the Nationwide and Simile so I do get emails from them from time to time. Mostly they are either to tell me to log in to see a message, or more often marketing type messages trying to sell me loans, morgages, insurance etc.

I have had hundreads of phishing messages though, for vurtualy every bank I have ever heard of.

The thing is, ISPs should be able to block or tag most of them to stop people getting taken in, because on my system spamassain catches most because they trigger rules from passing through known compromised mail servers or the like.

[Taz]

I'm surprised that banks don't set up a few spoof accounts. They could then collect these phishing e-mails and log on using details of the spoof account.

Then they could sit back and see who attempts to log in.

Perhaps they do this already...

[SilentDeath]

The thing is, ISPs should be able to block or tag most of them to stop people getting taken in, because on my system spamassain catches most because they trigger rules from passing through known compromised mail servers or the like.

No they shouldnt. ISP's are not responsible for the stupidity of its users.

How dificult can it be??????????? even my parents have a resonable idea of what to look for.