RBS/Halifax

[SandyDown]

Someone posted a while ago about warning sent by RBS security to update customer's accounts details online, was that a scam? I received the same email today from Halifax asking me to update my account details online, only I don't actually have an account with Halifax!!

[DirtyOldMan]

I received the same email today from Halifax asking me to update my account details online

Just do it. You know it makes sense !

[miffy]

Yup, it's a scam.

Never respond to those kinds of emails, and certainly don't click on the links embedded in the mail either, it'll only confirm you're a candidate for more of the same. The site may also have some dodgy payload ready to deliver to your insecure windows machine.

[NickFitz]

What miffy said, but just to reiterate:

NEVER under any circumstances follow a link from an email "from your bank" that takes you "to your bank" - it doesn't. If you get an email claiming that you need to "log in to confirm yada yada yada blah blah blah" then you can rest assured that it's a scam.

If you think, despite the fact that it's obviously a scam ("It is of greatest impotence that you pay attention to the neeedfulness of this prioritical message") that it might actually be important, still don't click on a link in an email, particularly if you're running Windows.

The reason why it's so important (neeedfully ;-) that you should always go directly to your bank by typing the canonical URL into your browser's location bar is that a URL in an email can take you to a site that surreptitiously installs something on your system which can intercept both your keystrokes, and the content and place of origin of web pages as they arrive on your machine, and then redirect you seamlessly to the actual site.

Normally yourbank.co.uk will only ask you for part of some aspect of your supposed proof of identity; for example, my bank will (among other things) only want the third, eighth and tenth characters of my password (yes, actual numbers vary by visit, so STFU you pedants like me :-).

Frankly, it would take me about twenty minutes to write a browser extension for Internet Explorer that could bide its time, parse the login page ("enter the third character"? OMG how do I turn that into a numeric index?) and sniff the user input until it had all of the password, which it could then silently send to some machine in Azerbaijan (via a botnet of anonymous proxies, obviously).

But seriously, Sandy, if you don't have an account with whoever it was - oops, you said it was Halifax but I forgot - why on earth did you feel the need to ask this question? Wasn't it obvious to you that it was a scam?

Aagh, just remembered another reason to always actually type "mybank.co.uk" into the location bar, rather than using a bookmark/favourite: it's very easy, once something is on your system, for it to change your "My bank" bookmark/favourite from "http://mybank.co.uk/" to "http"//987.654.321.000/evil_hacker_redirection_after_pwning_your_machine. pl?url=mybank.co.uk/".

(BTW, loving the eyes and the shape of the top of your skull; when do we get to see more )

[sasguru]

(BTW, loving the eyes and the shape of the top of your skull; when do we get to see more )

Indeed burqas (is that the right word) don't do what they were designed for as they might make blokes even more interested in what's underneath.

[barry_abs]

and certainly don't click on the links embedded in the mail either, it'll only confirm you're a candidate for more of the same.

if you've got your mail client set to automatically load images / external resources, just opening the mail will be enough to log your IP on their access log and validate your address as a 'hit'.

[AtW]

they might make blokes even more interested in what's underneath.

Not if the price for this curiosity is death

[SandyDown]

Not if the price for this curiosity is death

aaaahhh a man killing for my honour.. how romantic

[AtW]

aaaahhh a man killing for my honour.. how romantic

Actually Sandy you seem to have misunderstood that verse - honour killing is when you get killed by your relatives who thought that you decided to marry some guy that the family does not approve of because of cultural or other reasons - that's what they mean by "honour killing" in the most peaceful religion ever graced this poor planet.

[SandyDown]

What you said is exactly how I understood honour killing AtW - it also happens if a man attacks a woman against her well, the family is obliged to defend the woman's honour. Its still someone killing for my honour (My family's honour is my honour )

Still think its romantic to have someone so protective of you. I know there are some cases when you'll find sickos who take it far though...

Why do you keep attacking Muslims at every opportunity AtW?? as I said in other thread its the fastest spreading religion in Rusia now, you shouldn't be insulting your own people now.

P.S: don’t ever think you know more about Islam than me dear, I told you my Dad was a petroleum engineer and we lived in the middle east for most of my childhood and teens - so lived amongst them went to school with them and learnt about their religion !!