Have a look at this!

[Moneystinks]

I agree with Kallis - Definately not genuine. The polic do not issue warnings like this to their staff in my force either - for a start they have confidential/restricted stamped all over it in big read letters and usually i our force you cannoy forward/print etc the mail. They deem that they haveforwarded to the people that need to know and anyone should not be privy. If it is of public concern the they contact the media and publish in papers and on local news channels etc.

Funny though I too know somebody who works in a prison and they too send me these e mails. XX [:D]

[angela18]

my friend has just had identity theft through a bogus email. they've run up a few thousand pound on her lloyds tsb credit card.. she got an email from them and completed it.. came through just after she'd loggged out of internet banking so she thought was genuine... asking to confirm her personal details to get records updated

wouldn't care we're forever telling customers that we would never send emails of such... at HMRC!! think she would have new!!

[aguise]

I used to ring the banks and report these phishing emails but now just report them to hotmail. I must get three or four a week. Easy for me as I have no online banking so I know they are rubbish, but the best thing if you are not sure is to just ring your bank and check.
what a shame for your friend ang, the banks always say they will never ask you for all your details online. I hope she can sort it out and they get the culprits.

Ang

[kallis3]

I get loads on my old AOL address, which I still use), mostly for banks that I do not have an account with. I also get them from Ebay and Paypal. I just forward them on to the appropriate department in the organisation.

I have had my details used a couple of times. The first was in Tenerife (more years ago than I care to remember), when my details were taken whilst I was in a shop. I wouldn't mind but TSB let it run up to £1000 over my limit before they told me! They eventually changed my card.

2nd time was when I used my Lloyds TSB card to pay a bill over the phone, then on my next statement I had loads of top cards for mobile phones from all over the country on there. Again, they let my card go £600 over limit before they told me!

I'm thankfull that can't happen anymore!

Sorry about your friend, but it just goes to show how easily people will believe these emails. It only needs one or two, and the amount these scum send out they must get thousands of pounds from the unsuspecting!

[chris.g]

I'm always getting phishing mail from banks and paypal, I always report them. Never use the links on the emails, if it's genuine when you log on the official site the alert will be on there! There are a lot of scammers out there and we shouldn't make it any easier for them....

[kallis3]

Totally agree Chris. It's like the phone calls as well where people know your card number but ask you to confirm the three numbers on the back.

Your bank is never going to ask you that, so if you get one, just tell whoever that you will be phoning the bank just to check. I'll bet they put the phone down quick!

[chris.g]

I heard that there was a scam with phone calls. They would phone and say they were from 'blahblah' and ask you to confirm your bank account/sort code/b'day/address/full name/phone number etc.....All the information they need to steal your identiity. Hubby once asked a caller from LloydsTSB to confirm THEIR identity, to which they said they didn't have to!!! Hubby said he wasn't discussing his account until they did, they hung up!! I have no doubt that the caller was from Lloyds but they should have a way of verifying themselves to customers so we know that they are who they say they are. They are always banging on about keeping our identity safe yet there are no measures to ensure that we are dealing with the real companies.......

[kallis3]

That's right Chris. We have to jump through hoops for them to prove we are who we say we are, but we could be speaking to anybody.

Perhaps they should have a password or number for each individual customer so that we can identify them, or perhaps we should have a freephone number that we can call them back on.

[jpj]

I should think most of us on this site havent got cars worth carjacking !!!

Jacking up for repairs...YES !!! Carjacking NO ! )

[Wizzard]

A great advert for reversing INTO a parking space wouldn't you say. And its far easier to drive out of a parking space than to reverse out of one.

[kallis3]

I must admit Ray, that I do reverse in whenever I can. We have parking sensors on our car and they are sooooooo brilliant!!!!!!

Where I park for work is secure, so no problem there and I do try to avoid multi storey car parks on the rare occasions I shop for anything other than food!

[chris.g]

I find I can reverse into a parking bay easier than I can going forward!!! Don't know why but I can do it in one go, forward takes me at least twice![:I][:)][:I]

[kallis3]

It's the same for me ladyh! I think they just hit the send button and hope someone the other end isn't thinking straight!

My old AOL email address is quite good because if you try and click on the link, it brings up a phishing warning so you know that it is dodgy.

Perhaps they should all do something like that.

[Rockin Diner]

Hi all
There is a site called snopes.com where you can look up this kind of thing and see if its a hoax or not. You just put in a keyword search eg car jacking and the relevant stories come up. I just looked this one up and its a hoax.