Comments on: Scams awareness month http://www.getsafeonlineblog.org/scams-awareness-month News, tips and updates from the GetSafeOnline.org team Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lisa Bailey http://www.getsafeonlineblog.org/scams-awareness-month/comment-page-1#comment-412629 Lisa Bailey Wed, 20 May 2009 15:44:11 +0000 http://www.getsafeonlineblog.org/?p=271#comment-412629 My boyfriend got a VERY convincing email this morning from "alliance and leicester"... it's only because he makes websites/is used to the web that he spotted after all the www.mybank.allianceandleicester etc etc (that all looked really legitimate) was a little rubbish ".sdhjsd.kr" or something at the end, meaning it wasn't alliance and leicester's domain at all. Also worth adding to your tips that if you call someone - make sure you call them on a number that's on your statement/you've been given with your telephone banking, rather than a number that's in the email/they give you. Obvious but vital. My boyfriend got a VERY convincing email this morning from “alliance and leicester”… it’s only because he makes websites/is used to the web that he spotted after all the http://www.mybank.allianceandleicester etc etc (that all looked really legitimate) was a little rubbish “.sdhjsd.kr” or something at the end, meaning it wasn’t alliance and leicester’s domain at all.

Also worth adding to your tips that if you call someone – make sure you call them on a number that’s on your statement/you’ve been given with your telephone banking, rather than a number that’s in the email/they give you. Obvious but vital.

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