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| Thread ID: 39318 | 2003-11-02 19:51:00 | Warning - Westpac Bank Scam | Oxie (1318) | Press F1 |
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| 188776 | 2003-11-03 00:54:00 | Ijust got in for lunch & sat down witha cuppa to check my e-mail, and I got one too; didn't like the look of it at all, so bounced it with mail washer. Then, lo & behold, go to 'F1 and I'm not the only one to get hit today. There's some bad stuff going around out there!! |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 188777 | 2003-11-03 01:12:00 | What interests me is ... are you folk Westpac customers? If so...and assuming it didn't come from the bank itself...how did a third party get access to your e-mail addresses from the bank? Or am I being thick and not seeing something? |
oggy (1250) | ||
| 188778 | 2003-11-03 01:55:00 | Your email address can be obtained from a myriad of sources. Just had an email this morning from an unknown thanking me for posting photos of old Birmingham on a site, that must have been about 4 years ago, forgot all about it. These people trawl the internet looking for addresses. The Net is not that anonymous. I am a Westpac customer by the way. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 188779 | 2003-11-03 02:04:00 | So of course you'll be sending your details as requested. :D N.B. Everyone: No organisation will ever ask you for your password except in an actual login. They don't store passwords in a readable form. They can't tell you what your password is (except when they have run crack to find those who have used 'easy' passwords B-) ). They are not supposed to know --- that's for your protection, and theirs. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 188780 | 2003-11-03 03:55:00 | PC World's site (just click on the logo on the top of this page :D) has a news item about this. The free hosting place in Russia has shut down the culprit's account, and redirects any incoming stuff to Wetpac in NZ. This still doesn't stop passwords going around the world un-encrypted. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 188781 | 2003-11-03 04:14:00 | Graham L Thanks for that .... interesting article. I wonder how many people fell for it. Oxie |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 188782 | 2003-11-03 05:22:00 | What does banker rhyme with?! And by the way if you went ahead and verified your regn/password details as per the e-mail's instructions could you also send the same details to me at: iamgullible@not2bright.net.nz Many thanks |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 188783 | 2003-11-03 08:35:00 | If you read the email properly, you will notice the wording: To verify your e-mail address and My guess is that its been set up to gather email addresses, rather than gain pin numbers, to clean out bank accounts |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 188784 | 2003-11-03 21:26:00 | hi all, just letting you know i did online banking today with westpac, and every task or page you do pops up saying about this email, and please immediately change details and contact westpac to alter other details from their end so they are onto it for once. and as i have not had the email and was made aware of it by pf1 people, was not surprised to see westpac telling all as it were about this. thanxs guys much appreciate the warning, one thing from my end is westpac dont have my email addy as far as i know. or do they need it for me to have inline banking ? unsure on that point. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 188785 | 2003-11-03 22:15:00 | Westpac have today e-mailed their clients (those that have previously registered their e-mail addresses with the Bank) to advise and warn them of the scam. Lat night the site terminated on a Japanese server, now its a 403 error on a Russian one. |
godfather (25) | ||
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