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Well, it says pretty much the usual...:
'Our Technical Service department has recently updated our online services, due to this upgrade we sincerely call your attention to follow below link and reconfirm your online account details. Failure to confirm your NatWest account details will permanently suspend you from accessing your account online.'
The English is actually pretty good for this type of email (apart perhaps from the somewhat improper use of 'sincerely').
But the clever bit is the link's URL...
It is (click at your own peril
):
http:***//mail.nibblerscatering.com/www.natwest.co.uk/index.php***
Now that looks almost legit... or it would have been, if it was like that:
http:***//www.natwest.co.uk/mail.nibblerscatering.com/index.php***
(ignore the *** - there are there so the link does not get clicked on by mistake)
And it is not just the untrained eye that might fall for it... I do look at these links, and my first instinctive reaction was 'how do they do that??', until I spotted that it was the other way around...
As always, beware...
'Our Technical Service department has recently updated our online services, due to this upgrade we sincerely call your attention to follow below link and reconfirm your online account details. Failure to confirm your NatWest account details will permanently suspend you from accessing your account online.'
The English is actually pretty good for this type of email (apart perhaps from the somewhat improper use of 'sincerely').
But the clever bit is the link's URL...
It is (click at your own peril
http:***//mail.nibblerscatering.com/www.natwest.co.uk/index.php***
Now that looks almost legit... or it would have been, if it was like that:
http:***//www.natwest.co.uk/mail.nibblerscatering.com/index.php***
(ignore the *** - there are there so the link does not get clicked on by mistake)
And it is not just the untrained eye that might fall for it... I do look at these links, and my first instinctive reaction was 'how do they do that??', until I spotted that it was the other way around...
As always, beware...
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