Tuesday, December 20, 2011

This is kinda a stupid qn. scams?

ive recieved an email from abbey (bank) saying the following:





Dear Customer,








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We recently upgraded our Online Service to provide a good services for all our Online Banking Users in order not to be experiencing any difficulties when signing to your Online Account. due to this upgrade we sincerely call your attention to follow below link and reconfirm your online account details. Failure to confirm the online banking details will suspend you from accessing your account online.





http://www.abbey.co.uk/onlinebanking/log鈥?/a>





We use the latest security measures to ensure that your online banking











is this a scam. im thinking this because ive never had an account with abbey, nevermind online banking. ive always been with the same bank (halifax)|||There's been alot of those lately, I've had about 6. Anything that asks for your bank details just report and ignore.. It's known as phishing.|||If you have a yahoo email account, turn on the 'junk mail filtering' and all this cr*p will be automatically redirected to the 'bulk' folder....





.. other email services will have similar junk mail filtering ..





PS NEVER even 'open' suspect eMails .. unless you are using an email viewer that can strip out HTML code and Script before opening, you are leaving yourself vulnerable to virus / trojans|||Scam? Yes|||scam scam scam!!|||yes!!!!!!!|||yes it looks like a scam to me never do online banker i dont trust it myself

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