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RE: E-Mail Banking Scams

DotNetWebs — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:01:15 GMT

[quote][b]M (01/01/2007)[/b][hr][quote][b]DotNetWebs (01/01/2007)[/b]In the last few months I have had several letters ...[/quote]

I have had plenty of these by e mail from ebay and the banks but this is the first time I have heard of them in the post :exclamationmark:[/quote]

I would guess that if a bank has reason to doubt the identity of a credit card applicant a physical letter is much better way of verifying the identity of that applicant.

In my case some of the fraudulent applications had been made online. It would be very easy to set up an email account in someone else’s name. The bank therefore cannot be sure that the email will reach its intended addressee.

RE: E-Mail Banking Scams

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:26:26 GMT

[quote][b]DotNetWebs (01/01/2007)[/b]In the last few months I have had several letters ...[/quote]

I have had plenty of these by e mail from ebay and the banks but this is the first time I have heard of them in the post :exclamationmark:

RE: E-Mail Banking Scams

DotNetWebs — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:45:20 GMT

Thanks for raising this subject Paul.

This sort of thing is rife nowadays I am afraid. Another similar thing to be aware of is identity fraud.

In the last few months I have had several letters from credit card companies asking me to 'confirm credit card application that have been made in my name. In each case the 'applicant' had my full name, address, date of birth and even my mothers maiden name! :angry:

Fortunately in each case the credit card company assumed the application was fraudulent as the applicant had asked the card to be sent to a different address.

It's a bit frustrating that, even though they have the address that the cards were to be sent to, neither the credit card company nor the police will not do anything about it unless money is actually lost. Having said that Horsham Police Station were quite helpful and now have all the details on record.

I am also now registered with the CIFAS Protective Registration Service as recommend by this site which is well worth a read:

http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/what-if.htm

RE: E-Mail Banking Scams

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:22:37 GMT

Luckily my ISP filters out such scams to save me deleting them

E-Mail Banking Scams

Paul D — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:45:47 GMT

I am not sure if any readers have experienced suspect e-mails that have been sent to them by their bank, requesting them to log on to a link provided in the message, to verify pass numbers, passwords etc. Don’t go there, it is now a very common scam. I had one sent to me from the Nationwide, looks authentic all right; they go so far to provide links back to Nationwide official web site. But a close examination reveals lots of spelling mistakes; also it actually links back to the Czech Republic.

No bank or building society will ever ask you for such information.

Paul D