Bogus emails that are getting more common on the fraud front

I received an email the other day which said that I had won a considerable amount of money on an online lottery website. I knew instantly that it wasn't right, but if somebody else got it, they might not know that it wasn't real, and they would then give their name, address and bank details to whoever was asking. Some people who are dubious about it might think that the potential to win that amount of money would outweigh the risk by far- but I don't agree. You should be incredibly careful about these emails, and they are on the rise rapidly in the recent years. You need to make sure that all of your friends and family know about it, and also that you report the emails in question when you receive them, as your email provider may be able to delete their email addresses and maybe even track them down if the problem gets completely out of control.

Those e-mails have gotten so ridiculous that its hard to take them serious anymore. Nobody in the world should ever respond to those things, they look fake and they are always from overseas. I can't trust anything in an e-mail anyway, if my bank wants to send me something they will do it by mail or send me a text. Only they have my information and they rest of these fraudulent banks need to be dealt with.

YEah, banks will never do that.. haha =D IF there are issues to be resolved, they will be calling u directly, either to your house or on your cellphone. Never ever, will it be via email. Email can be intercepted and thus it's not safe.. haha =D U are lucky and being alert, so u managed to avoid in making that scam a success! Just like my friend, he encountered a "nigerian scam" as well, and nothing happened.. hehe

I'm glad you didn't fall for that scam. Unfortunately, there are many who go into a panic and without thinking give these thieves all the information they need to wipe out their bank accounts.

Those are kind of scheme, my friend to get information from you and your account.you must be careful in detailing your information. Even if the banks, will email you. You don't if that is the policy of the bank to write their clients or depositors. This is a violation of the banking law. Because bank should retain it's secrecy and never reveal any information to any about their clients. Be careful... Have a great day!

I get these e-mails all the time, even from banks I do not belong to. Banks never send e-mail requesting information like that, all of these e-mails go straight to my junk mail folder.

I have not had any of those for several months but I used to get them I just delete them. No bank sends out e mails like that

I had to send my bank some information so they could track a situation I had a couple years ago. I had signed up out of curiosity to a companies servce which was for free for the first month. I contacted the company after checking it out and chosing not to continue and I cancelled the service. They went ahead and billed me. Several other people had complained about this company and I was glad to help. The bank did a great job of getting the payment back. It was a headache and a hassle and I learned a lesson.

Yes, the scammers online are getting really smart by sending emails to victims. I know because they did like a whole news report about it here. Well, the banks here don't ever send emails to their clients asking for sensitive personal information. So they told us its best to delete them. I am very careful about the stuff I get in my emails and don't give out personal information online. If there is a problem with the bank, They would phone me and ask me to come to the bank to fix the problem.

I don't do any banking on line, so I don't get any notices from banks. I am afraid to do any banking on-line, and even if I buy something, I use a credit card that you aren't responsible for any unauthorized purchases. I never use the debit/credit card that is tied into my account.

Yes, there are many people trying to rip us our well-earned money. They do many things to fool people to part with their money and they will create many kinds bogus emails and text messages. I remember at one time in Indonesia, several people received calls saying they were from the government phone company. They contacted those people to announce that they won a car, and they need to contact certain numbers they provide in 2 days otherwise the car would be re-drawn for others. Once the people contacted the numbers given, they were required to pay the tax for of around 10-15% of the cars price within 2days, otherwise it would be gone. Some people were too in and lost their money. Naive people will still fall for this kind of things.

I cannot tell you how many emails we get asking for our details as we are "beneficiaries to" lots of money etc etc. I have now started to give the details of one fraudulent lot to the other!

This is becoming way too popular. I don't reply to any banks e mails.

That's a fraud for sure. I never knew that bank would send us an email for something like that? No matter what happens, the fastest way for the bank to reach us, is via phone call. Nobody will go through the long process of email because it's the dangerous form of communication of all! U are alert to those bogus email, and that's a good thing. Let the bank deal with it, and did u report it to the police?

That is why I send things to "spam" if I don't know what it is. If it isn't anyone that I know, I won't answer it.

I bank with one Canadian bank, and one American one. I have never gotten anything that looks like it came from the Canadian bank, but I've gotten a few that appear to come from the American one. I just forward them to abuse@ and the bank deals with them.

I get those too and never pay mind to them if I think something wrong I go right to my account and look for email or alerts from my bank. I even gt tehm form a bank I have no account with!

I've seen those kind of Phishing scams before too. I get them from time to time from some well known national banks, sadly for them that is not where my accts are kept at! I love it when they say they are going to freeze your account if you don't verify your information.... WHAT INFORMATION? WHAT ACCOUNT!?!? I've even gotten similar phishing ones saying they are PayPal as well.

fraudsters these days are getting very clever,you have to be so carefull now that we have the internet,i ignore anything like that aswell,if i get a letter or something i always ring to check things out properly

I get them from Paypal and from banks I dont use also. Whats weird is that I havent gotten any from the bank I deal with as of now. I pick up my emails on my ISP server, so I can tell them what is scam and what is good. I get less and less of them now. Maybe your ISP provides such a service??