I must have had many of these claiming accounts in banks all over the world (including paypal many times). The modus operandi varies only slightly from case to case. They are dangerous attempts at phishing. I even set aside folders for them. There were a couple of Nigeria scam ones this week as well. Nigel Hunter wrote: > Just had an email from someone pretending to be barclays bank saying > that I as one of their customers (Im not!!) need to enter my account > details as there was an issue they said they saw on my account (which is > non existent!!!) The subject is Barclays Bank Update and the sender is > services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > The Link they have within the email is www.barclays.co.uk but when you > do a mouseover on that link and look in the bottom left corner of the > email window the actual address is http://www-barclays-uk.net > > The good thing about this is that if you are using tbird it will warn > you that the link looks suspicious so you will be protected as long as > you dont click on the link. > > > Regards > > Nige -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 112663246 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/index.html?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.