Ibgit this e-mail from Mint !!, I don't have a mint card and have never applied for one so why do they think I'm a customer.
But should not the e-mail be through my banks e-mail address or should they not be asking us to go to or through the banks normal procedures.
I smell a scam.....
Screen shot of e-mail.
A standard phishing email - I'm surprised you haven't seen dozens of them!
If you go to the (real) Mint web site you may find a place where you can report the scam and forward the email, so that they can investigate further.
PS. Whatever you do, don't click on the link they provide. It almost certainly contains a coded tag that will identify you as a valid email recipient, which will release a flood of similar spam. If you must visit their web site out of curiosity, copy and paste the url and delete anything following a question mark before pressing Enter.
Last edited by Trinoc; 10th January 2009 at 12:51 PM.
Yep, that one has definitely gone phishin'. No financial institution asks any personal data via email, ever.
Suggest that you forward the email to Mint who will undoubtably have a department that investigates these things.
Most of the phishing emails I get seem to be 'from' Abbey National, with a few Barclays and RBS/HBOS.
Oddly, I don't remember ever having phishing emails purporting to come from any of the banks I do actually have accounts with.
Same here tolman, I only get phishing emails from institutions I don't bank with.
Simple rules -
a) never follow links in emails unless it is a known, trusted source that you are expecting
b) never put any password into ANY site unless you went there yourself
c) never type a password into any non-encrypted site, i.e. one which does not start with "https".Originally Posted by Mulder
d) don't trust a site that confirms your password to you in a plain text (non-encrypted) email. If you can read the email, it's quite probable someone else can as well.
e) don't trust emails, allegedly from big companies, that contain spelling mistakes!
I used to get lots of fishing emails from American banks that I had never even heard of, let alone banked with. But it is easy to spam millions of addresses and they only need a couple of successful hits for it to have been worthwhile.
No problem with phising or sleepers, they just make me laugh I usually delete them but it was a quite weekend and nothing much happening.
I got no money, Its not my bank and I don't give a figs arse the banks had enough tax money from me.
Funny thing about spam. I've had my email address for many years and it's seen a wide distribution, so it has attracted a lot of spam. And by a lot I'm talking of typically 1,500 emails per day, 98% spam. This was up to a year ago. Curiously, and without my doing anything, the number has dropped steadily to only a few dozen a day.
Getting a lot of spam does have one benefit: it means I get multiple copies of spam emails, so I can instantly identify them...
Credit crunch hits spammers?
I've always used Hotmail for my personal e-mail, and I've found that ervery few months I get hit by new spams, but once they've been assigned as junk the filters do their job very well.
I don't get spam about bank accounts, but I do get ones about EBay account details, and of course the occasional 419 scam.
It may well be your ISP implemented better spam filtering at their end. I had a similar problem (on a smaller scale) until they upgraded the filters and the number dropped from 150-200 per day to maybe 2-3 a day.
May also be your e-mail software working as well. As spam became a large problem filtering was introduced and normally gets updated regularly as well as being adaptive. If you're clicking the "Spam" or "Junk" button when it comes in then that item and e-mail gets added to the list. Depending on how it's set up you may never see the crap.
Saw a report recently that one major network distributing spam/phishing etc emails had been shut down and this meant a huge drop off in spam immediately. Predictions are it will creep back up again as new gangs enter the market.
Have forwarded a few to the banks in the past and get a thanks but have given up, especially as have dropped ramatically recently.
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