Hi Nigel > 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. Since the link shown in the mouseover did not have any numbers or anything else that looked like it was a unique way of identifying you and verifying your address, i tried it out and it seems the site has already been shut down. Barclay's has a pretty good security site explaining all kinds of email and other online fraud and ways to stay safe: http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk/BRC1/jsp/brccontrol?site=pfs&task=channelFWgroup&value=8722&target=_self -- -------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.