abbey national email scam

[dippydi]

I have just opened an email from Abbey national plc.
Saying my online account is about to close and to click the activate button below.
Which i did silly me but nothing opened anyway as i do have an abbey national from ages ago thought it was this as long as i dont put in details they cant do anything if you click activate can they?
Tried sending a reply but it just gets returned looks like a scam doesnt it.

[buildersmate]

It's an attempt to acquire your security details by getting you to enter them into a fake site. If you didn't enter anything, the only thing it has told them is that your email exists and you do probably have an Abbey account.
Just delete these emails.

[antiguru]

You might have been lucky this time but your curiosity might also have led you to click on an e-mail that let a virus into your computer.

Millions of people�s e-mails are now on spammers and phishers lists and it sounds like yours is too now.

1) If you�re a bit suspicious about an e-mail, just don�t open it but delete it. No financial institution will rely solely on e-mail to contact you is they really need to.

2) If you want to research an e-mail before deciding what to do from it, look at http://www.hoax-slayer.com/.

3) If you get inundated, change your e-mail address.

Hope this helps.

[factor-fiction]

There's no such company as Abbey National now- they have been Abbey for some time, part of Santander.
Any email claiming to be from AbbeyNational is therefore clear a poor scam.
And if email was genuine the bank would always include your name- scams just say something like Dear Customer.
An email from a bank shouldn't include a link. Banks want you to log on to their site by keying in their web address as they want people to avoid clicking on links in emails.
If in doubt go out of the email, log onto your bank account, and if there was really a problem with your account you'd find out then.

[oldwoman]

Been getting these all week. They have now changed to Nat West. I suppose they hope they get the right bank eventually.

[tufty7]

mm I got one supposing to be from RBS a few weeks ago , just delete them as its getting more common ....

[kujawski]

they are all about as genuine as Mr Bobo from Nigeria,who sent me an email just this morning saying that he has 15.8 Million US Dollars that he wants to share with me 50-50,

kind man

[buildersmate]

What a coincidence, he wrote to me as well. This man must be made of money.

[gerardmartin]

This is an email I have just received and I don't even bank with them..

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM based transaction. Therefore as
a preventive measure we will temporary limit your access to sensitive Abbey features. To ensure that
your account is not compromised, please log in to your Abbey Online Banking and verify your identity to

prevent deactivation.

SERVICE: Abbey Online Banking.

What you need to do:

- Go to: Abbey Online Banking

https://myonlineaccounts.abbeynational.co.uk/CentralLogonWeb/

[VINNY100_2]

Ive also received one from Abbey national and this one to
From: Lloyds TSB Bank Plc
Date: 02/11/2008 11:21:53
Subject: Rectify Your Date Of Birth And Billing Error's



Dear Valued Client

Lloyds TSB is sending you this notification message because we seem to be having errors in the proper verification of your account. This might be due to one of the following reasons:


*An Internal error within your Date of Birth
*A recent Change in your access codes
*A recent Change in your billing information or


To rectify this error as soon as possible please use the button below to verify your Account Information





Failure to verify your information will lead to temporary suspension of your account online for security reasons



Yours sincerely



Paula Whiskerd
Ive sent these to [email protected].
The fact is I dont have bank accounts with any of these banks.And they would have addressed me by my proper name..(:O)
dont click on any links.

[steve.cook99]

After having won numerous lotteries I never entered,been left millions by benefactors unknown to me,Been contacted for delivery of various parcels...and the list goes on.... my first port of call when I see a suspicious e-mail is to put e.g "abbey national scam" into the search box and 9 times out of 10 I find a long list of people who have received the same.I never open them and delete them unread