Your Internet Banking Has Been Blocked!

You could forward to the wonerful people at scambaiters they love it..

Same here.

Forwarded mine to suspiciousemails@alliance-leicester.co.uk - will it do any good though?

Pay attention that man.

I'm not sure just clicking the link would do any harm. They're after your account details and passwords.

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I don't have an internet bank account

Nor do I - working in IT security, it is one thing I learned to stay well clear of.

Banks don't e-mail in any case.

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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I don't have an internet bank account

Nor do I - working in IT security, it is one thing I learned to stay well clear of.

Banks don't e-mail in any case.

No, do not steer clear of it. Take advantage of this and enter something just to confuse these crooks.

Just opening the email has proven to the scammers that the email is 'live' so it will be used time and again now by these and others whn passed on.
You can train the spam filter with words and phrases?
Well in excess of 3000 per day arrive at the company email - mostly for 'V' but a lot of these - they always seem to go in phases.
Delete and block the email addy - it's the best to do for now.

That reminds me of a joke:

One of those Nigerian scam emails asking for your account details so they could deposit x amount of money into your account and then give them half. Some guy replied with his Northern Rock account details.
Five minutes later there was a reply asking if he though he was an idiot who wasn't aware of scammers.

No don't try to be smart. Don't try to confuse them. Ignore it and notify your ISP or email provider if you can be bothered. If you reply it tells them you're there and sets you up as a future target.

No, do not ignore these suckers, they will keep spamming the world, hit them back with a billion emails, confuse them, hurt them.

Best advice is NOT to respond to these phishing emails. Here's what Sophos have to say, for example.

Report it to your ISP or email provider or your bank, yes. If you reply with bogus info, no matter what a smart arse you think that makes you, you've told them you're definitely there so make yourself a target for more of the same and the likelihood is that you'll start getting a lot more spam. They don't care if it it means they send out further useless emails. This doesn't come from a wee man sitting in his bedroom typing it all by hand. It's organised crime you're dealing with.

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Originally posted by Peter Dinh:

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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I don't have an internet bank account

Nor do I - working in IT security, it is one thing I learned to stay well clear of.

Banks don't e-mail in any case.

No, do not steer clear of it. Take advantage of this and enter something just to confuse these crooks.

I steer clear of Internet banking all together.

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Originally posted by TomK:
Best advice is NOT to respond to these phishing emails.

Which is why you should never ever use "out of the office".

And why you should never have your home email say "I'm on holiday for the next two weeks...." as I've seen people do. Same with telephone answering machines.