is this a fake email?

[legend758duo]

Royal Bank of Scotland Plc

Dear Royal Bank of Scotland Direct and Digital Banking Service client!

Our Support Unit is performing a planned Direct and Digital Banking Service update

By following the link below you will open the procedure of the member login confirmation:

http://www.rbsdigital.com.site3500/update/defa ult.aspx/refererident.htm?ssid=20eGslZBBADtcwh hOkhOvp

These instructions are to be sent and followed by all customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland Direct Banking Service

Royal Bank of Scotland Digital Banking Service does apologize for any troubles caused to you, and is very thankful for your help.

If you are not client of Royal Bank of Scotland Direct Banking Service please ignore this notification!

***** This is an automated message, please do not respond *****

[jake-the-peg]

Never follow a link to a site for a bank or similar that you receive in a mail.

Even if it looks genuine.

Go to your banks own web page and find it there.

Also note the clumsy use of English: troubles caused to you: thankful for your help

[Goodsoulette]

There will be a tab somewhere in your email to report websites and emails that are plainly trying to get your money. These things do the rounds because people dont bothe to report them.

This is yahoos, I'm sure Ive seen them on hotmail orange and fsmail too.

You just forward the suspicious email to them.

[email protected].

[email protected].

[pauln90]

There are 6 or 7 of this type of email caught by my spam filter every day.

Every day I seem to be getting all sorts of scams,not just this type of email but also the Nigerian lottery and fake win type scams.

According to latest figures some 3.2 million people in the UK have responded to these approaches either by email letter or phone and have handed over money. Now that is scary.