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Another abbey cock up?

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    #11
    Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
    asking for the card details, expiry date, security number and atm pin!
    Your computer has been badly compromised. You are being phished, and if this happens when you have typed the bank's official URL into the browser location bar, you must regard that machine as essentially worthless from this time forward - it could be a corrupted hosts file, or a poisoned DNS cache, or any one of a wide variety of other evil tricks

    If you have a bookmark ("favorite", if you insist on using IE) by which you went to the site, be aware that there are trojans and such that will search for and rewrite such bookmarks to point to a phishing server.

    In any case, even typing the URL into your browser isn't good enough now - if whatever got you can do that, it can do anything, and there could be keyloggers and all sorts of similar evil on there

    DO NOT USE THAT COMPUTER FOR ANY ACTIVITY REQUIRING SECURITY. YES, I'M SHOUTING. IT'S THAT BAD. I'M BREACHING NETIQUETTE to drive it home to you

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      #12
      Couldn't Bolshie just download a free trojan checker? There are some good ones on Russian warez sites.

      (I know someone who actually did that.)
      Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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        #13
        What everyone else has said - they NEVER ask for PIN numbers - this sounds like a fake website that may have got you...but def get onto them first thing

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