NatWest Scam (BEWARE)

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Like I have a NatWest account... NOT!

I got the following email (with nice banner and icons...)


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National Westminster Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the Natwest Online accounts. As a result we periodically review Natwest Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vulnerable to the unauthorised use.

This message has been sent to you from National Westminster Bank because we have noticed invalid login attempts into your account, due to this we are temporarily limiting and restricting your account access until we confirm your identity.


To confirm your identity and remove your account limitation please following the link below.

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Following the "Login" link takes you the following page:

http://64.131.68.223/~wmba/web/natw...erident=/C2A5FF4023751C930C3E110413A7A8987A&/

Do NOT enter any details here!!!

Running nslookup on the clearly fraudulent address reveals

Name: vps.basketballmanitoba.ca
Address: 64.131.68.223

Doesnt look like NatWest to me


:nono::eek::nono:

IMHO you' have to be a complete monkey to do anything with this .. other than report it, which I have.

Anyway be warned
 
I seem to get loads of these emails... I don't even have a Natwest account!
 
There are so many of these about unfortunately, i have received several over the last few months, mainly for banks i dont deal with and never have !

Fortunately if you ignore the pretty headings and banners, you can see the grammar isn't even close to english in places :)

Many people do get caught out though :(
 
I get these quite regularly from all different banks. It's amazing how many people fall for them. The only safe way to access your bank is by going directly to their URL and never via an email link.
 
hillwalkinggirl said:
I get these quite regularly from all different banks. It's amazing how many people fall for them. The only safe way to access your bank is by going directly to their URL and never via an email link.
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How very true. In any event like this I either call the bank on the direct line, or go into a branch.

Better safe than sorry
 
It's called "phishing" and is getting to be very common. Common sense applies here as everywhere.
 
I had the same text the other week, but the heading was from the halifax.
 
i used to get loads of these, stopped getting them recently

anyone whos stupid enough to fill these things in deserves having all their money stolen
 
I also get loads of these on a regular basis.
One thing U will notice is that it nearly always says "Dear Customer" or something similar. Your bank will always refer to U by your full name.
 
I get these on my work e-mail, for most banks, we only bank with one and I have nothing to do with the banking! :thinking: some peeps must fall for it or they wouldn't do it, bad people that do bad things..... :bat:
 
Every once in a while I'll fill the form in with some bogus details such as

Mr Ima Thief, 999 Letsbe Avenue

and so on :lol:

I'm such a child sometimes ;)
 
I'd be careful about visiting those websites, even just to fill out rubbish: you might download a keylogger which will get you next time you visit your real bank's website.
 
whitewash said:
anyone whos stupid enough to fill these things in deserves having all their money stolen
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Thats not a fair statement.
My mum uses the computer about once every 2 weeks to order shopping off tescos.com, but apart from that, she never uses the computer.
If she got one of these emails, she would follow it blindly, because it wouldn't occur to her that someone would send her a fake email to try and steal her login details.
 
:agree: These sites can be very convincing.

They usually come from spoofed email accounts as well, like customer_services@halifax.com

and point to websites that look exactly the same as the proper ones. It's not difficult to make a website look official:

http://www.halifax.co.uk/banking

The fact of the matter is that these emails take advantage of those people less internet savvy than most, who don't understand "phishing" and other scams.
 
JumboBeef said:
I'd be careful about visiting those websites, even just to fill out rubbish: you might download a keylogger which will get you next time you visit your real bank's website.
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Fortunately my online bank has two passwords and the second requires the user to enter random letters from drop downs that don't allow key presses for selection.

But then without decent AV/internet security you could pick a keylogger from anywhere at any time :(
 
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