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Another bank scam mail for Uk banks to deal with.

by moneypenny on May 16th, 2008

According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll get scam mail, lots of it.

So how do you protect yourself? Because people really do fall prey to these scams.

Number 1 rule  

Banks do not contact you by e mail. If you bank on-line, you have a password to enter the system and that’s part of your security, and so give it to no-one, the bank won’t and can’t ask for it, ever.

If you see a message like the one below, which seems to be “on your side”, read the whole thing and think for a minute before you respond. They are just posing as “security fans” to try and lure you into trusting them and giving some info: e mail address, home address, postal code which they can sell on or use to seal your identity. So a criminal who can’t get a fixed address or telephone number and post code, can operate using your details.

Dont fall into the trap of thinking: Well I’ve never had a lot of money in my account so they aren’t after me. Data is money for them, without it they can’t operate.

 Rule number 2 ” Never put your real date of birth on anything online,unless it’s  a secure banking site that has a copy of your I.D., ( we have to trust the banks with this, although we may not want to, we have no choice as I said in my last post).

Read and take care!!!!!

Attn: Beneficiary

    RE-Immediate Release of £3.1 Million to your designated bank

    In line with the recent Directives from the British High
Commission, Board of Directors of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Co-operation
(H.S.B.C) in conjunction with the International Monetary Funds (I.M.F) for our
Bank to transfer without delay, the sum of £3.1 Million (three Million
one Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) to your designated bank account
in this Quarter.

    Henceforth, you are required as a matter of urgency to contact this
Office immediately and also forward your present banking Particulars
where this funds will be transferred to and send 1st and 2nd pages of
your International Passport for Identification purposes for Final
Endorsement and Approval of this Fund.

    Finally, expecting your urgent response to these regards, so that
we can effect transfer accordingly.

    Delay is dangerous.

    Dr. Martins Woold Jr.
    International Transfer Department.
    Direct line +447024021151

Dear NatWest Bank customer,

We have implemented security measures consistent with our internal information security practices to help us keep your information secure. These measures include technical and procedural steps to protect your data from misuse, access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.

One of these security measures is NOF (NatWest Online Form) to help us to keep your personal and banking data up to date.

You should complete NOF on a regular basis.

Please complete NOF using the link below:

http://online.natwest.com/NOF/startupdate.aspx?refererident=0164046924087817665993760912833371466688146657074005&cookieid=7060161820575

NatWest Automated Mail Service. Please do not respond to this mail.

 This one could be posing as protection but actually be a scamer trying to get you to trust them for later when they approach again, expecting you to then give your account details.

So I repeat

Banks don’t make approaches by e mail. If you bank online theres a secure platform for that. If there’s a problem on your account that’s urgent, they will phone you, if not they will just write to you.

Banks never ask for your pin, they are not allowed to. Please be careful! people get scamed out of their money every year because they fall prey to the latest scam.Last year when they caught the biggest spammer of all time in the states and took him out of the way, it was expected that it would reduce spam mail and scams, but others have taken over and filled the void imeadiately.

Here’s the link if you want to read the history of the spammers arrest.http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/10/topten.shtm

Yours in money

 Moneypenny

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