mbna scam email

drrnwbb

(mods: feel free to move this)

i got a scam email this morning from 'mbna' saying i had to log into my credit card account by clicking on a html link. the email looked like a standard html email, but it was actually just an image. it was very well done.

i rang mbna and they said that it was a scam, so if ya get it just delete it.

dw

Rabies

Are you sure it was from MBNA. I often get spam emails from MBA about credit card info. The first time I saw it I taught it was from MBNA. Now I just delete it along with the all the other spam.

drrnwbb

i'll upload the image tonight when i get home.

mbna said on the phone that they had other people reporting the same email and that they had mbna's technical people working on it.

dw

Lump

Most banks warn you to never reply to e-mail. That they will never send you an e-mail requesting confirmation of card details etc. Well my bank does any way.


John

Tyrrial

there is only one thing a bank does over e-mail...

Marketing Spam.. i'd delete anything from any bank

Doctor J

MBNA are the kings of spam.

They hassled me for ages by mail, even phoned me up a few times (I never gave them my number) asking would I be interested in one of their cards. When I told them no they asked "why not?"

I demended they stop and never contact me again, yet every few months I still get letters from them.

Bastids.

I hope to fook they never get my email address!

irishgeo

surely nobody is this stupid.

I mean its common sense now that and email asking you any thing like a password or account info is rubbish.

oneweb

It's a 'Phishing' scam, the likes of which are happening with ebay, Paypal and various other credit-card-detail-storing stores/services.
Basically scammers set up a mock website which is an exact copy of the real thing. If people (stupidly) enter their details, they are sent by email to the scammers who then log into the account and fleece it or swipe (pun intended) the credit card info.

NEVER, EVER reply to anything like this and NEVER give your password or credit card details to ANYONE who requests them, as your bank/ebay/Paypal/MBNA will NEVER ask for them.

Falkorre

What he/she (oneweb) said!
"Phishing's" becoming more and more common, be very carefull.

On another note, MBNA are a shower of ******ds, this company is possibly the most devious, evil, manipulative company I have ever had the displeasure of having to deal with (myself and on behalf of others).

steer clear of them in the first place is my advice!

B

Karoma

see: phishing

needless to say: even if it opens up a nice shiny new window that has the 'proper' domain name : it isn't real.

* bang your head 3 times off keyboard and once off the monitor and call me in the morning *

drrnwbb

here is the image from the email. another thing that threw me off what the wrong year at the bottom.

anyway, under the image it had (in white writing) "Jokes come and see U2 The WWF The X-Men ".

dw

oneweb

Originally posted by Dawntreader
What he/she (oneweb) said!

A he is me

Ok, let's demonstrate...

http://www.aib.ie
AIB

Note that, although the first link looks like AIB, you'll see the status bar say members.boards.ie. However, it's very easy to spoof the statusbar text.

The second link also looks like a link to AIB. Again, it's not. Anything after http and before a in a link is a username and/or password, which is terribly easy to insert a lookalike domain into. (eg www.aib.ie in this case is the username for host members.boards.ie)

It's worth checking out the address bar in your browser when you need to be very sure. Also IE can be tricked another way. I neither know nor care 'cos I use Mozilla!

Rabies

News article about it on news.bbc.co.uk