Yes - NAB does warn about these, and tells you to
ignore and do not respond to them at all, as
no bank would send emails such as that anyway!
Cheers, Tom
--- Rob Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 26/12/2005, at 1:39 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
> wrote:
>
> > I am being inundated with requests from National
> Australia Bank to
> > contact them because they are doing software
> updates and want to
> > know about my browser.
> > Has anyone else received these requests? Are they
> genuine.
> > I dont bank with National.
> > Merv
> > --
> > "Science teaches that we must see in order to
> believe, but we must
> > also believe in order to see."
>
> I do bank with the National and they do not contact
> clients via
> email. They will send requests or information via
> their web-site
> notice board, once you have logged into their online
> banking site you
> have access to it.
>
> It is a phishing email, simple way to deal with them
> is to mark as
> SPAM and hopefully your email client or server will
> filter it
> accordingly, preventing others to filter through.
> Also if you feel so
> annoyed by such an email you can contact the bank
> via their addresses
> on National Bank web site. Not much they can do
> about it except warn
> customers.
>
> Cheers!
> `Rob...
>
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