On Sep 1, 2008, at 21:52, Martha Krieg wrote:
At 9:15 PM +0100 9/1/08, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Those emails are not from legitimate banks - they are spam. No real
bank would ever send you an unsolicited email asking you to verify
your details. Just hit the delete button, and DONT reply.
Worse than just spam - they are phishing, hoping to entice you into
entering your information, so they can rip you off. Even if it is your
very own bank where you have accounts, NEVER fill in that sort of
detail when requested by an e-mail.
Watch out for phone calls, too. The first time I got a "we're calling
about your credit card account" call, I nearly had a heart attack. It
was only with the second sentence -- "there's nothing wrong with it, at
this time" -- that I relaxed enough to slam the receiver down. And it
took another few finutes *afterwards* to realize that a) they never
said whose account they were talking about (my DH and I have separate
cards, from two different banks) or, b) which bank they were supposed
to be representing.
I've had 2 more calls like it since and, both times, I put the receiver
down after the first sentence. Maybe, next time around, I'll have
enough fortitude to listen to the entire pitch...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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