Is this a new scam.I've received this email about my nationwide account.But i don't have one .I've pasted it

Question

Your Account Could Be Suspended

Dear Valued Customer,

Nationwide Bank is committed to maintaining a safe environment for
its community of our customers. To protect the security of your account,
Nationwide Employs some of the best advanced security systems in the world
and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Nationwide Bank system
for any unusual activity.

In accordance with Nationwide user Agreement and to ensure that your Online Banking Profile
is Secure, access to your account has been limited.
In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may
require some specific information for you in order to verify your identity.

You are advised to immediately log in and reactivate your account by following the link below:

Click here to Log in to Online Banking


N.B. Receiving this email indicates that your account has NOT been compromised so you are
not required to make any changes to your online banking profile.

Regards
J. s. Smith
Nationwide Bank plc

Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide House
Pipers Way
Swindon
Sn36 3gn




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Answer 1

Yeah, it's called phisching (pronounced fishing)
they get you to enter all your account details to a fake site and then they empty your account. You should never respond to any emails your "bank" sends you (that's what Natwest advise anyway)
Hope this helps

Answer 2

Scam, a bank would never ask you to click on a link and verify your details.

Things to look out for:

1. Reputable companies would not contact you by email and ask you to confirm details.

2. If you hover the mouse over the link you can check the url. If this is an IP address (eg 123.45.64.23 or something) or does not have the company url as the base address (in this example www.nationwide.com would be good but www.nationwide.SOMETHINGELSE.com or www.SOMETHING ELSE.com/nationwide would be bad as it would really be to a site at SOMETHINGELSE.com) Never click on a link in an email even if you think it is genuine type the use a bookmark you always use or type the address you know.

3. look at the email header information. It may look like complex but somewhere in it is the originating address.

4. I'm betting the email had lots of nice nationwide images, these do not mean its genuine, companies are more likely to send text emails for business (they may still send fancy adverts though)

5. You are not a customer, they have probably sent the same email to thousands of people, sometimes they are stupid enough to have a list of people they have sent it to, they probablu have similar addresses to yours.

A lot of companies now have an address you can send suspected scam mails too. this is normally [e-mail]

Answer 3

They send alot of them out it is not from Nationwide,they just hope the people who get them actually do bank at Nationwide and click on them,you could do society a favour here and inform Nationwide of this email so they can keep up to date with risk assessments,your action in this matter will help a lot of people by ensuring nationwide informs its customers.

Answer 4

Of course it's a scam. I don't know of any UK bank which sends emails - and NONE of them would ask you to logon and check your details. If you are ever in any doubt, do not click on the link in the email, but open your online banking in the way that you normally would (i.e. from your favourites or typing in the address).

If the bank needs to get in touch they would do so by post - or by showing a message once you've logged onto there systems.

Delete this email now (or send it to the bank in question so they can warn there customers).

Answer 5

Definately a scam. I get these things all the time. Just ignore them and delete. Even if they come from a bank you have an account in don't fall into the trap. I got one from "my bank" supposedly, so I took it into the bank and showed them. They assured me they never ask for details via internet and would I leave the copy with them. So I did, although I doubt if they can catch these b........s I felt better about it.

Answer 6

scam! by doing this you will give them total access to all of your information. If you actually enter what they are asking you will be giving them enough to rip you off for years. Call Nationwide Bank and ask them about it. If they can't verify it, then they can send out an alert to let others know about it.

Answer 7

THIS IS A SCAM. Your bank would NEVER ask you to verify information via email. Anyone could access it. Think about it.

Call your bank and report this, it is fraud.

Answer 8

I would definitely believe that is spam, just to get you're info.

In that case, you would have been much better off to have not opened it! And just hit spam. That way you don't pick up any viruses.

There is a legit missing money site, with the U.S. government.

But you're best off not to do anything through you're email account, and do the best you can to check out any site that you do open separately to find out if it is legit.

Like check with the Better Business Bureau even.

Answer 9

Yes it's a scam I got one from another bank containing same as what you were asked and I didn't have an account with them either just delete it

Answer 10

Scam - do not click on the link, and do not reply to it. If you're forwarding it to Nationwide's fraud address, make sure the full headers are displayed.