Do you bank with Barclays?

[Gareth]

Yep, Bristol isn't in London, but the remaining details are correct. The postcode given exists, and is indeed for Avebury Road, in Ashton Vale, Bristol. From what I remember of my time living in Bristol, it's in quite a nice area of Bristol too.

Maybe we should give him a call on that number to see if it's legit too!

Just recieved it on my NTL account. If i banked with Barclays then i would have been half tempted to check the link.

*Important Notice: **February. 24, 2006** *


Dear Sir/Madam,

Barclays Bank PLC. always looks forward for the high security of our clients.
Due to the recent update of the servers, 2006 updated servers, you are requested
to please update your account info at the following link. Or your account would
be expired.

*http://www.barclays.co.uk/cgi-bin/ac.../1,00,102.html
<http://%37%32%2E%32%39 <mod snipped> 6D%6C>*




*J. S. Smith*
/Security Advisor
Barclays Bank PLC./


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
For assistance, log in to your Barclays Online Bank account and choose the
"Help" link on any page.

Barclays Email ID # 1009

[Pia]

That's a strange one isn't it! The link is for the genuine Barclays site but isn't found anyway..

Or your account would be expired.

The good english just shines out ......

The return path pointed to eagerweb.co.uk but all i got there was a Lime Green screen. Perhaps i've uncovered another fisch or somebody is targeting me ?

[altis]

There's some useful tools over at DNSstuff:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/obfusc...2574%256D%256C

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=72.29.71.159

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall....n=72.29.71.159

~snicker~

http://72.29.71.159/~howden

I bank with Barclays and they never send me emails.Snail mail yes,emails no.In fact they do warn against such emails.

Could/should this thread should be renamed to bank phishing emails because I've had several purporting to come from
several of our different High Street banks thus far and they have all been along the same lines.

Just in case i haven't involved into something they know nothing about, here's the gubbins..

From - Fri Feb 24 13:05:17 2006
X-Account-Key: account2
X-UIDL: <200602240320.k1O3KPj15357@www.eagerweb.co.uk>
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <httpd@www.eagerweb.co.uk>
Received: from aamta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35])
by mta01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP
id <20060224032033.PZBR10606.mta01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:20:25 GMT
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[Mal]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Could/should this thread should be renamed to bank phishing emails because I've had several purporting to come from
several of our different High Street banks thus far and they have all been along the same lines.

I have had at least 3 a day, for at least 3 weeks now, purporting to be from the Alliance & Leicester. Needless to say that I do not bank with them.

[uboat]

Hey I bank with Barclays, my accountant she kicks ass - bestiest person in the whole wide world.

The other day (24th Fed) she phoned me about this 10% new barclays interest account, hehe she was trying to sell it to me. told her i'll think about it.

[Pia]

Originally Posted by uboat

Hey I bank with Barclays, my accountant she kicks ass - bestiest person in the whole wide world.

The other day (24th Fed) she phoned me about this 10% new barclays interest account, hehe she was trying to sell it to me. told her i'll think about it.

And it was a scam?

I just discovered a new twist to this phishing scam.

For your security, the profile that you are using to access Barclays Online Banking has been locked because of too many failed login attempts. You can unlock this profile online by selecting an option below: (link removed) your Barclays profile. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you.

Sincerely,
Barclays Account Review Department.

We are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity.

Need help? Use "Site Helper" or call customer service at 0845 600 2328 - Barclays.

Please do not "Reply"to this Alert.

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Oh yeah I really trust this one.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by uboat

Hey I bank with Barclays, my accountant she kicks ass - bestiest person in the whole wide world.

The other day (24th Fed) she phoned me about this 10% new barclays interest account, hehe she was trying to sell it to me. told her i'll think about it.

Like this one you mean: http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk/B...4&target=_self ?

Another one.

[Anonymouse]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh yeah I really trust this one.

I've had a few like that; I ignored them, and hey, guess what? My Barclaycard account is still alive and well. Big surprise.

If your Barclaycard account is disabled for whatever reason, there is of course a number on the card you can call to sort it out. It happened to me once; apparently if more than a certain number of transactions are made in a certain length of time, the account is automatically disabled as a precaution, on the assumption it may have been got at. I called them, they verified my identity (hey, look, no ID card but they managed it anyway!) and went through each transaction to ensure it was me who actually made each one. After that, they just re-enabled it, no problemo...and from then on, I made sure to limit the number of transactions in a week.
But they would not do this anonymously, i.e. over the Internet - only if the cardholder contacts them directly will the account be re-enabled. You can't even ask your local branch to do it, or rather you can ask but they can't do it; you have to ring Barclaycard.

Some of the emails do give the correct email address for Barclay's ibank site...but I'm willing to bet that's not where it actually takes you. Doubtless anyone who's never coded HTML might not be aware that a hyperlink and its tag don't necessarily have to read the same, and that's how some of them fall for it. For me, though, it's always the subtle errors in phraseology and/or grammar that give away the fact that English isn't the first language of whoever sent the email. Having studied English at AEB level (similar to GCE, but harder) does come in handy sometimes.

I've asked at my local branch about Barclays' email policy. Here it is: they do not, EVER, send unsolicited email to any customer, even if you have sent them an email, such as a service inquiry. They're far, far more likely to call you and/or use snail mail. If you get an email claiming to be from Barclays, it isn't. END OF STORY.

I don't doubt the same is true of the other large banks; they obviously have a vested interest in helping their customers avoid getting phished. General rule: delete any email claiming to be from any bank, whether you bank with them or not - and do not, EVER, reply to them; all that'll do is confirm a valid email address, and then you're stuffed.