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Question

the royal bank of scotland wants my details plus a few more who lets this scam through the system.?

Answer 1

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )

However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/

Here are a few steps you can take to try and avoid spam.

1. Don't open unsolicited Spam. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road.

2. Don't use the Preview Pane for the same reasons as #1

3. Set you email options to accept mail from only people in your address book or safe lists.

4. Set some filters to automatically route spam to certain folders for easy deletion later.

5. Use a throwaway account for any online registrations you need such as news sites and contests, etc. Often these email addresses are sold to other places, particularly advertising firms. If the throwaway account gets over run, you can simply delete it and create another.

6. Use the BCC when composing emails and encourage your friends to do the same. What this does is protects mailing lists from email harvesters.

7. You can consider using a third party application such as SpamFighter (free version can only be used for 1 account and it is for Outlook and Outlook Express only) http://www.spamfighter.com/

8. Never reply to any spam email that you happen to open and receive for the same reason as #1 above.

You can see more info at the webpage below:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-007.html

Answer 2

Makes no difference what the name of the bank is, it is a scam. NO bank will send you an email requesting that kind of info. If you have the vaguest idea that such a request may be real, DO NOT click on any link there. Instead type in the known URL for that institution and see what if anything is on their site to request such info. They don't do it that way. There are many such sucker emails out there for everything from Pay pal to EBay to you name it.
Just send it to the spam button.

Answer 3

I've had a few emails pretending to be the RBS and a few pretending to be Abbey, it's not really the banks/building societies who can prevent this as they have nothing to do with it, it's independent parties just adding the name and hoping the stupid people on the other end fall for it.

Answer 4

Do you HAVE an account at the RBS? Never respond to any email asking for account information when you have no such account. I get those things all the time and I've never had accounts at any of them.

Answer 5

I never give personal details over the net or even the phone.

Answer 6

it is not a matter of who but what- the computer is the one, it does not know it is a scam, because it links scams and viruses by portal ids and by senders id's, not by the message body.

Answer 7

It is best not to divulge personal details via the internet.

Answer 8

I don`t