LloydsTSB Scam?

[suej]

 

 Just to say I think there is another banking scam thing around.

We do not have an account with LloydsTSB but during yesterday and already this morning we have received 4 mails in our Hotmail box warning us that there is a security problem with our LloydsTSB account.  I've not opened them and am about to delete them  but they do make me jumpy..grrrr

[Pierre ZFP]

These phising emails have been around for ages - I can't believe there is someone in the world that would take them seriously for a microsecond.

I used to get loads of these but strangely not so many now.

My Junk Mail filter consigns them to the pit of doom automatically.

[PaulT]

I read somewhere what the estimated success rate of these were and it is extremely low.

However, when you issue a vast number of emails then you just need one or two to succeed.

[Weedon]

I get a few of these, I wonder if it is coincidence that quite a few appear after I have been on this site.

Tania must be mistaking me for somebody else though as she insists I have contacted her for a Russian girl. Knowing my luck I would get the shot putter not the model. Handy for gardening though.[Www]

[AnOther]

They seem to be a bit like busses, you wait for ages then half a dozen come at he same time.

The same with the Federal Express or DHL 'failed delivery' scam which includes an attachment which is upposely a copy of a delivery note or something but of course is a malicious programme waiting for the unwary to invite in.

As said with millions of mails going out daily it only takes the merest fraction of a percentage to respond to make it a potetailly lucrative venture.

[Stan Streason]

SueJ.

No need at all to be jumpy.  99.9% of these are junk.  You can (and should) delete them with a completely clear concience. 

You will never get a really important contact from your bank by email so even if you miss the genuine 1 in 1,000 it wont matter - it will be marketing guff.

Good reminder to increase confidence however is to contact all of your banks and make sure they have got your preferred method of contact noted.  Mine is by mobile phone.  I occasionally get a phone call querying a transaction (which I dont mind in the slightest) but I get a name and then ring them back on a number already programmed into my phone memory.  It sometimes takes a while to get through the automated systems back to the person who wants to speak to me but I feel completely secure.

[Quillan]

I get quite a few of these through my business account not to mention Viagra, Greek priests or medical students wanting to stay in my 'hotel', people going to give me several millions of dollars, all these parcels that can't get delivered and of course banks (I even get some from myself!), many of which I have never even heard of. I use Mailwasher Pro markes them all in red and I just hit the delete button. At least it gives you a chance to do a quick check just in case and you can restore them if you see one flash past that you think was wrongly delivered. I have anti spam on my accounts but then things go in to a black hole which is why I prefer Mailwasher Pro.

[AnOther]

One thing which does puzzle me about spam in general is that except where specifically required, such as on official sites and institutions etc. I rarely if ever use the full form of my christian name preferring the shortened 'Ernie' and I have certainly never ever used the full form 'Ernest' in any email address I either have or have had, yet in the body of some of the spam I receive it addresses me as Ernest so I do have to wonder where they have got that from ?