Barclays bank Phishing email.

[Richgm]

Just had an email from Barclays asking me to confirm my details due to a software upgrade.

It's a very good fake and even the header has been forged so it looks like it comes from Barclays. If you get one and look at the link it's got

barclays.co.uk/customercare..... but the link is actually

barclays.co.uk.customercare.goto........

You have been warned.

Rich

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Forward it to: reports@banksafeonline.org.uk they monitor this sort of thing.

[Richgm]

Have forwarded it to internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk

They can deal woth it now.

[adhawkins]

As with all e-mails like this, never click on a link in an e-mail asking for your security details. Your bank will never ask for this information in this way.

Always type the address into your browser, or if you must click a link, check that it goes where you expect it to.

FWIW, I've been getting these for ages, from all sorts of banks (including ones in the States that I've never heard of).

Andy

[Mark Stanton]

Haven't even got a Barclays account     fill it in with  random numbers and an expletive password   apologies to Mr A. N. Other      

[Gavin]

Just had one the same pretending to be from Lloyds TSB. Again I don't have an account with them either.I forwarded it on to their fraud department who are investigating it.

[Richgm]

It's not my day

Just had one pretending to be off ebay

[Stuart]

I'm getting those ones from Nigeria wanting to make me a multi-millionaire on a daily basis at the mo.

Read somewhere recently that chip and pin has been so successful in reducing physical card fraud that it is turning the rats and mice more and more to the www.

[Richgm]

Couldn't help myself with the ebay one.

He now has a login and password made up of 4 letter words.