On 09/09/2010 01:32 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:13:03 -0700
JD<jd1...@gmail.com> articulated:
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.
I have set up several 'ALERTS' as my bank calls them that inform me
daily as to my bank balance(s), ATM uses, etc. The number and type of
'ALERTS' is configurable of course. Perhaps you are dealing with
a very small local bank. I can assure you that, that is not the norm in
today's banking environment.
Well then, expect to get spammed by alerts that look just like
what the bank sends you and they will have a from address
identical to your bank's.
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