It's called 'pishing' and you should inform the bank concerned as it's a fraud and people DO fall for it (FFS!!).
Some can be very convincing with the correct logos, fonts and page layouts.
Be very careful about any email asking for your details. As a rule of thimb, never, ever give your details out in reply to an email - the Banks, Credit Card companies, ISPs, eBay, PayPal etc will never ask for those details in an email.
One really convincing one I've had mailed to me was somebody protending to be from Ebay. Account verification again. Set up in html so all the logos etc are correct. A little form in the middle to enter your username (already entered in) and your account password.
Can you imagine how many people have suddenly bought widescreen TV's and other expensive stuff?
I couldn't figure out how they already had my username for the verification box though. I must admit that was good.
A friend of mine actually replied to that. Luckily he told me soon after and we were able to change his account details. He was very lucky indeed.
Yeah it is a big problem with Ebay. They really try there best to stop it but these people do know there stuff and hide their tracks well.
Ebay can pay money back if you have fallen foul to this scam but only if the product is not something you would normally bid for.
Is it possible for them to veiw card details that have already been entered on the site? In otherwords did your friend cancel his credit card too? If they got hold of his ebay account, they would have access to his address, full name, card number. Everything that is needed to make a transaction over the web excluding the three digit security number. But that would only be trial and error.
I am lucky that I know of these scams in advance, this is the first time I have seen one in the flesh so to speak. As was pointed out in a previous post by someone, banks already know all about you, they are not going to ask you for details they already have...
Having looked this company are well organised for reporting this abuse so I have forwarded it to them, users beware...
A friend of mine actually replied to that. Luckily he told me soon after and we were able to change his account details. He was very lucky indeed.
Had a few posts allegedley from barclys re my account details....fact was i do not have any accounts with barclays!!!! silly beggars but am sure some will fall for the scam...
mirth
Virtually all the Banks and Financial institutions have appalling systems for email contact, if they have one at all.
The problem stems from email address harvesting. The spammers trawl the websites looking for email address you then get bombarded with spam to such an extent that the email address becomes totally unusable to receive genuine email. Therefore they have a sort of contact form, which, if you're lucky may work.
The state of affairs with email harvesting is so bad that I have had to remove my contact email from my websites and now use a contact form. Thousands of spam emails a day (yes, you read that correctly thousands) on the support email address has made it totally unusable. God knows how many the financial institutions are getting - it just doesn't bear thinking about...
Fred,
Not to be a damp squib or anything but the email address harvesters are becoming a lot more sophisticated. They can now read these "camouflaged" email address.
I was recently (yesterday) offered 32 million email addresses on CD for peanuts (if I remember correctly $ ). Once you're on one of those CDs you've got to change your email address.
My advice - if you have to put an email address on a web page use a / /msn one which you can change very easily once the spam starts.
That is why I said Reduced..........
I know things have changed - but there are still a lot of people harvesting with software that cannot read decimal notation.
Regards
Fred
can't believe that they think she has credit with them......hence the insurance....
