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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS BLOG.

ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

Halifax security advisor ,

This scammer is after your credit card details. NEVER click on a link in a bank email, even if it appears to come from your own bank.  ALWAYS enter the address of your bank’s website directly into your browser.  Banks NEVER ask you to reconfirm your details in a random email.  If you think you have accidentally given your bank or card details to a scammer contact your bank immediately.

Dear valued [Continue reading Halifax security advisor ,]

Online Banking Alert

Apparently the Wells Fargo Account Review Team have “identifies some unusual activity” on the account that I don’t have!

I hope you know that ALL emails from banks saying there is a problem with your account are fake.  This is a scammer who wants you to give him/her all your account details.  NEVER click on a link in a bank email, even if it appears to come from your own bank.  ALWAYS enter the [Continue reading Online Banking Alert]

Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank – Payment received.

A bit more convincing than the usual scam bank email, poorly written rubbish.  Still a scam.  NEVER click on a link in a bank email, even if it appears to have come from your bank.  ALWAYS enter the address of your bank website directly into your browser.

That link takes you to deltaprisma.com, which redirects to http://mybusiness.servehalflife.com - NOT the A&L website.  Once there you are asked for all your confidential bank info so that the [Continue reading Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank – Payment received.]

Limitations On Your Lloyds TSB Account

Short and ungrammatical – this scam bank email should be sent straight to your email trash can.  I didn’t look at the attached webpage, but I’ll guess it asks for all your bank account details so the scammer can help him/herself to your money.

Your Online Access is Limited. Download to restore access from been Suspended.

Your account was accesed by a third part

Clearly spelling wasn’t high on this scammer’s list of achievements at school.  I’m told that my account was “accesed”  and that they might “temporaly” suspend my account.  Ah – the power of the mind!!  This idiot then finishes by telling me that they “recommend to verefy (sic) your account”.  Clearly this scammer has:

a) copied the text of their scam from somewhere else – probably somewhere that was exposing an original scam and pointing [Continue reading Your account was accesed by a third part]

Update Your Online Banking

There hasn’t been a “security breach” in the HSBC systems – if there had it would have been headline news on the TV, radio and papers.

There will be a “security breach” of your account if you click on the link and enter the information this scammer is asking for – your online banking ID and log-in details.

NEVER click on a link in a bank email – even if it appears to [Continue reading Update Your Online Banking]

Incoming Transaction Message – Lastest Information.

It’s been a while since I posted a fake bank email – I get so many of them.  But.  One of my email addresses has been a rich source of scam emails for this site.  The provider of that email has just implemented a much more robust spam filtering system – with the result that my source of scams has dried up!  Eekkkk!  I’m probably the only person in the entire universe that wants [Continue reading Incoming Transaction Message – Lastest Information.]

Payment Alert

It’s been a while since I posted a scam bank email.  I get so many of them, from almost any bank you could name – and a few I’ve never heard of!

NEVER click on a link in an email that claims to come from a bank, even if it claims to come from your own bank.  ALWAYS enter the address of your bank’s website directly into your browser.  No bank will ever ask [Continue reading Payment Alert]

Your HSBC Messages

I haven’t posted a scam bank email for a while.  I get so many of them that I’m afraid I can’t be bothered to post most of them.  But I thought I’d post this one – as a reminder that you should never click on a link in a bank email – even if it appears to come from your bank. Always enter the address of [Continue reading Your HSBC Messages]