Anyone can fall foul of a scam – and I’m proof of that

I had a similar experience recently – on my email. The account was suspended after I was (first) required to enter a human recognition number, and then informed I had ‘exceeded the number of wrong log-in attempts’, and should re-enter my details below. I didn’t.

I have ‘lost’ my email account before, and it is a dispiriting and devastating experience to lose years of correspondece and all internet communication details. On this latest occasion I logged-off and closed the internet connection; then re-opened re-entered my email access details. No problem!!

The clever thing about this attempted fraud was the request to type the human recognition number (or whatever is the right technical term for one of these). This lends an air of authenticity to the apparent security system, but must have been a connection to the phishing site. I was lucky.

Just a further warning. In the first post at the top of the page (by John Ward) he writes “My bank now puts my residential postcode on any e-mails it sends me with information about services – this is a further safeguard”.

Today I have received an email, purporting to be from the Halifax, which is clearly a phishing scam as it invites me to sign in to online banking using one of two embedded links. Also, the originator’s email address (hidden beneath the cover name of “Halifax Bank”) is definitely bogus.

However, the email does address me correctly using my surname and, what’s more, does include (correctly) the last 3 digits of my postcode. This is, as they say, to “confirm authenticity”.

So the moral is, don’t be fooled, as the scammers can even acquire this information to lull you into a false sense of security – though I’d be curious to know how?

exact same thing happened to me they only took 40 pounds natwest should make a personal password with you that you would never forget to say over phone before letting any moneys to be transferred out of cash points,

Just a word of warning. Had a call from Bank of England to say I had been scammed last April, knew I had not as I was living overseas, however, chap proceeded to tell me it was in connection with the Bank of Indian, warning bells!! Got quite aggressive when I asked for details and sort code of b of e (work in a bank too) would only send forms over the Internet and not via post – just love to keep them hopeful. Got quite cross when I would not give PayPal detail although never told I did. So, be warned if you have been scammed, they are scamming you again by offering to refund to original scam.

I had something similar with barclays last Friday, and I`ve just had the exact email purporting to come from Nat West: `We have detected suspicious activity etc.`. I didn`t click the link, but merely took a copy then deleted the email. I was going to phone the bank, but, after reading some of these comments, I`m going to drive the 15 miles to the bank first thing tomorrow.

I am getting text massages saying that several people are setting up accounts on my natwest when I don’t even have a natwest account 😳😴

I clicked on a link in a txt message telling me that my I tunes account had been de-activated and that I needed to submit my details to re-activate it. I did start putting info in i.e. my email, DOB and part of my home address but something alerted me and I closed the message. A couple of hours later I was notified that the link was a phishing site. Hoping that the limited info I put in wont cause any fraudulent activity?