How to spot a Spoof E-Mail from your Bank

[mauijim]

Absolutely I2D and we should all be aware that the scammmers are out in force and have replicated the pages of most of the big banks sites that you use for on line banking. We have had written warnings via post from our bank about this. Most reputable banks do not do business as far as I know in the way demonstrated above.

regards
Garlok

You should be using Firefox or Chrome because when you attempt to visit a link from these emails it should give you a warning first and then Firefox warns it is a possible phishing site.

Always hover your mouse over a link first without clicking it. You should see the domain name appear that is relative to the link. The fraudster can put the bank name somewhere in the address but they cannot fake the TLD (Top level domain)

You spot them like this

The following are all genuine links and you can replace “bank” with your actual bank

• http://www.bank.com/
• http://bank.com/
• http://blog.bank.com
• http://www.bank.com/blog/
• http://www.bank.com?string

The following are all fakes

• http://www.bank.fraudstername.com/
• http://bank.fraudstername.com/
• http://www.bank.com.fraudstername.com?string

You should note how all of the valid URLs have bank.com before the first single forward slash and/or the first question mark? That’s how to spot what is real and what a fraud is!

BTW you can replace .com with .co.uk and the same rule applies.

If you are in anyway unsure then simply ignore it and wait for them to write to you.