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This message has been sent to you from HSBC Bank P.L.C
You tried to pay online using your personal account at HSBC in Argos Online Shoping for Panasonic Plasma TV ? 750.00 worth it failed.
Because we could not contact you by phone HSBC Bank P.L.C has restricted access to your Personal Internet Banking Account.
For upgrade your phone number that we can contact you within 24 hours you please click on the link www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2
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Something not quite right about this email I had today. 😉
in answer to your post title....yes
maybe...just clicked on link, looks ok but I'd be surprised if the bank had a policy of sending you links.. i thought they told you to log in to your account and sort it out that way.. ring them up
Get loads of 'em regarding my internet banking account,I don't even have one. Just chancers hoping for some luck.
The main giveaway is if the email is addressed as 'Dear Internet Bank User' or similar rather than 'Dear Mr .....'
>maybe...just clicked on link, looks ok
That's because the OP copied the text of the Email into this post and the textual URL looks ok. In reality the underlying link would actually take you off a a phishing clone-site but the underlying link isn't brought over to here via a normal copy/paste.
Well, apart from the facts that I don't have, or ever have had, any kind of account with HSBC, and there is no way I'd be buying a Panasonic Plasma from Argos in particular or anywhere else on line for that matter, the glaring spelling mistakes and bad grammar kinda give the game away. I find it amazing that anyone falls for these things.
Also, how would the bank know what you are buying??
I would be really concerned if it listed your weekly shop at Tesco!
[i]The main giveaway is if the email is addressed as 'Dear Internet Bank User' or similar rather than 'Dear Mr .....' [/i]
Well to be fair the main giveaway is that you get an email. If your bank really, really feels the need to contact you, they'll send you a letter, or phone you up.
Defo a scam, look at the Engrish...
"For upgrade your phone number"
Heh, I sussed it straight away, but I was amused by the feeble attempt. Paypal ones are a lot more subtle, tho'.
It's written by an imbecile, and no bank has any need to post their SWIFT code on an email as it serves no purpose whatsoever unless used in conjunction with an IBAN or account number.
Fake.
It's amazing how many phishing emails and actual frauds are caused by the short-sighted internet policies of the banks several years ago. For example, being told to click on www.royaIbankofscotland.co.uk to update your internet banking login details seemed legit until you looked very closely at the spelling of the URL. You just don't get that with rbs.com (obviously using RBS as a random example)