Now the Halifax are at it!

[Topcat]

This made me laugh out loud.

It's all set in a beautiful blue box with the Halifax logo. But if my Halifax manager had such a poor command of English gramamr I'd change to Nationwide (assuming I had a Halifax account in the first place).

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are currently working on Our Online Ssl servers to ensure a safe and secure Online Banking services for the New Year 2007.Halifax Bank PLC have employed some industrial leading models to start carrying out security check on all Accounts for safety purpose.

You are hereby requested to update Your Halifax Online banking credentials, for thorough verification against and update. These will not interrupt your online banking. These are to be done for Your Safety and the Bank. Please put all your information’s, because the last time you did not put Security Question and Security Answer.To Get Started Kindly Click https://www.halifax.etceterahalifaxcoukHOME.

This email was sent by the Halifax Online server to verify your e-mail address. This is done for your protection , because some of our members will no longer have access to their online banking and we must verify it.However,fuilure to do so may lead to future problems with your online services.
Thanks for your co-operation.




Mike Regnier
Head of Savings

TC

[Big Sis..]

Youre right TC.. Got this Weds..


IMPORTANT SECURITY ALERT

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Please note that our system recently noted that your attemption of signing on to your account was failed while some errors occured during the processing update of your online account you are having with our bank so we temproarily locked your online account for security reasons..

We hereby notify you that you should kindly follow below link to update and unlock your online account for your security safety ensured by our financial insititution.


CLICKxxxxxxxTO UNLOCK AND UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.




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Investment Fund Managers Limited, Halifax Life Limited and Halifax Share Dealing Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services AuthorityThey are entered in the Financial Services Authority's Register and their Register Numbers are 106048, 119223, 171881 and 183332. This is an English language site, all contracts will be in the English language only.For optimal viewing of this site you will need Macromedia Flash version 5 or above. Copyright � 2007, Halifax plc. All rights reserved



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If you choose to ignore our request, your account may leads to be temporarily suspended

Not a worry really as I havent got an account with 'em

This is an English language site, all contracts will be in the English language only.

seems an odd thing to add as well dont it

[tree-peony]

it's English, Jim, but not as we know it!!!!

(adopts Scottie type accent)

[Big Sis..]

it's English, Jim, but not as we know it!!!!

[charliechoice]

This has baffled me for some time. It's pretty obvious that whoever is behind these scam e-mails has fraudulent intentions,is it not possible to trace them and take the appropriate action ?

[Mountain Goat]

I think it happens quite quickly - innocent punter signs back into dud site with personal security details, scammer immediately logs in to their genuine account and does a nippy transfer.

Halifax abuse would immmediately try and close the fake site, but probably based in Albania and might take a while.

Forwarding these (with headers) back to the bank can help them if you've got time, but you'd probably be one of 500 doing the same thing.

That's the way I see it.

MG

[Topcat]

"Nationwide" are at it now. We've just been away for the weekend and I came back to find 7 from this scammer. To be honest I didn't bother to look at it this time, just clicked delete 7 times.

Though it might have given me another laugh.

TC