Those bank emails

[pvr]

You know the type, you receive loads of them all the time about that your online account has been compromised etc etc. Most of the time, you don't even have an account with them.

I just happened to look at one today, and you think - why do they just not pick those guys up? Look at this one - his account is visible in the jpg and if you go to it, it connects to his facebook account.


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Security Information

NatWest<http://www.sdjl.co.uk/uploads/2007/06/natwest.jpg>
Dear Customer,

We're so confident of our site's security that we take full responsibility for it: if you ever innocently suffer any fraud as a result of our Internet Banking service, we'll refund any money taken from your account. That's a promise.


* Account Security :

National Westminster Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the Natwest Online accounts. As a result we periodically review Natwest Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are

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Have they really nothing better to do?

 

[sp3ctre]

I doubt this guy has anything to do with it to be honest... usually the scammers just search online for the pics... in this case if you do a google.co.uk image search for "natwest" and go to page 28, you will see the image in question. The scammers do this so there is less trail back to them.

If you're feeling kind you might drop the guy an email, before he gets tarred and feathered!

 

[Wondermike]

Read these the other day, one response per 12.5m spam emails sent, hardly what you would call a great strike rate is it

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/spammers-get-1-response-to-12-500-000-emails-483381

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/11/cyberclinic-spa.html