lloydstsb e-mail scam

......and not just Lloyd s-Tsb either. I have recently had emails purporting to come from HSBC and Barclays directing me to sites looking remarkably genuine which were designed to elicit confidential information about my account, username, password etc.

My suspicions were aroused as I do not hold accounts with any of the banks mentioned in this post.

I do not hold an account with TSB that's what made me suspicious. As you say, the pages can look extremely genuine. I went to the TSB official page and they were requesting that any scam e-mails be forwarded to them for investigation. It's a pity that those who design these pages don't put their expertise into something more constructive

There are emails going round with 419 scams. BEWARE!!!!!

What do you mean?

They COPY the pages!

There are email scams going around claiming to inform you that there is a scam with a certain bank (citibank, I think it was), but those emails are scams too!

Don't trust anyone. Not even me! (but you can trust what I just said : )

Thank you, Bertrand Russell.

Your suspicions should have been aroused irrespective of whether you held accounts with them, banks dont send out emails of this nature.

There are emails going round with 419 scams. BEWARE!!!!!

Well, yes and no, various companies do send emails with helpful links to their web sites. And it's not just financial companies, e.g. amazon keep your credit card details by default. Mind you, cloning amazon's web site would be a major achievement!

Good point. Though IIRC Amazon dont show the whole credit card number just the last few digits.

Really, no never. Wow, fancy that. Wake up FFS

Quite a few people now blank some of the numbers on receipts - unfortunately they seem to pick different numbers, so you can probably still get the full number with a suitable collection ...

I can't help feeling that these usenet warnings are becoming as much of a nuisance as those usenet/email warnings for viruses desperately urging you to TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!

Daytona