Nothing unusual, standard type of 'we have barred your account pending input of your security and account details.....etc' Normally these are picked up by Yahoo and immediately go to the SPAM folder. It did however contain an apparent clickable link to a genuine natwest.com site.
This one however got into my inbox and opened during a distracted moment. No clicking on any of the links etc. However I manually marked as SPAM. When it was in my SPAM box I examined the underlying code which is very large, and discovered that contained embedded in the code is a large number of details of people from my contacts list.
The questions are,
1. presumably this info is only harvested in the event that you click a link -yes or no. 2.How does a an email that appears in your inbox collect the information?
I do not use NW for online banking but the mail is, I suspect,good enough to fool a lot of people.
I have posted here to ensure maximum visibilty - mods may like to move later to computing?
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NatWest Scam mail - warning new