These seem to be doing the rounds again, this is the second this week (for different banks) and it's only Tuesday ::) Reported of course.
Dear Yorkshire Bank Customer,
Yorkshire Bank is maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal guidelines to guard your personal information against unauthorized access, we restricted some of our services for our clients, in order to be able to complete this process.
At this time we need you to renew your online profile and update our existing database, in order to be able to use all the Yorkshire Bank services with no restriction. As soon as our database will be updated we will make a few anouncements to our customers regarding this notification, so please renew your online profile with no delay.
Please click the link below to verify your account and log in:
www.ybonline.co.uk/secured/httpybonline.co.uk=updating/login.html .
(Remember Failure to verify your account details may lead to account being Frozen for security Reasons)
Thank you.
Online Banking Security Team
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My business gets these daily. The spam filter picks most of them up, but they come in batches from every bank in the world it seems. I never open them, and they are deleted immediately. If I reported every one of them (1) I wouldn't get any work done (2) it would clog the net up further with unnecessary emails (adding spam to phishing) and (3) they only operate for a day or so, and then are gone so are unlikely to be found.
If they send 10 million emails (easy, costs nothing) and 1 percent look at the email (like you did), that's 10,000 people who've wasted 5 minutes of their time worrying about it. If of those 10,000 people, 1 percent do something about it (like typing in their details and pin numbers) and the phishers manage to get £1,000, say, from each account - well, that's £100,000 income from one go. Easy money, no wonder they do it.
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