On 09/09/2010 05:05 AM, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:10:37 +0100 (BST)
G.W. Haywood<g...@jubileegroup.co.uk> articulated:
I personally would never accept nor rely on any email which claimed
to be from a bank. I know too much about email, and about banks.
I reject mail which uses the word 'bank' anywhere in the greeting,
the envelope address, the sender address, or the subject line.
Just a personal view, from years of experience. :)
I guess it is a good thing that you don't use my bank then.
My bank told me unequivocally that they NEVER EVER send emails
to their clients. All communication (other than snail mail from the bank)
has to be done by logging in to your bank account and send communications
about your account through an ssl'ed session.
They do this for good reason: SPAM!!
Spam that uses the email message format of the bank and spoofed
sender email address) to con recipients to click on a link which
splashes a
page that appears to look like the bank's page and asks the user to
enter name,
account number and password.
It is a sad fact that most such recipients are not savvy enough to look
at the
URL of the page.
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