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Phishing Attacks |
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As a general rule of thumb, never click on a link that anyone sends you through email if you do not personally know them. If you do, definitely don’t enter your personal information - such as banking information or logon details - on whatever page it takes you to, even if it looks like the real deal. It could be a phishing attack. We’ve seen some pretty convincing phishing attacks in the past. Popular variants include scammers sending you emails that appear to be from your bank or from a company that stores your banking details like Paypal. Also auctioning sites like EBay have been victim in the past. If you do click on any links in an email like this, the giveaway is to look at the address bar - your banks (for example) name will appear but will it be the banks domain? For example a fake Natwest email took us not to www.natwest.com (genuine site) rather it took us to www.rfsfff.natwest.com (scammer site) - rfsfff is the domain, not Natwest, and god knows who is in control of rfsfff.com. The emails themselves will typically ask you to renew your details for (ironically) security reasons, or may even claim that someone was trying to access your details and they need to verify who you are. If in doubt, ring your bank, or try tapping in the name of your bank on this site and see what known scams we have that are presently out there. For more information on phishing attacks, click here. |
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