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[Johnny 1989]

I take it this is one of those email spammers. The amount of times I get emails about my Abbey National Account needing a security update, 1) I don't have an account with Abbey National & 2) It hasn't been called Abbey National for five years at least

[Andy B]

Foots I never knew your name was David? Have you paid it yet?

[Johnny 1989]

Tell you what, get a couple of the old Zimbabwean $100 Bearers Cheques & send it to them (value in UK pounds about £0.0000000000000003)

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For the record, I would always recommend that you do not go over your limit agreements either on your debit or credit cards. Doing so will result in significant charges and you may lose any promotional deals you are currently receiving. These charges will be available in your terms and conditions and may be included on the back of your statement. Spiders are not generally accepted as an agreed payment method (regardless of the leg count) and the majority of banks will use the traditional "money" system. Again, I refer you to your account terms and conditions for full details.

If anyone would like any further details, please contact myself or your local branch where the staff will be only too pleased to help and, depending on your credit scoring, balance and payment history, try and sell you a loan / mortgage / credit card / insurance etc.



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[Johnny 1989]

:lol: I take it this is one of those email spammers. The amount of times I get emails about my Abbey National Account needing a security update, 1) I don't have an account with Abbey National & 2) It hasn't been called Abbey National for five years at least

Quoting myself here but following on from the Abbey National emails, I have since had one to say that "my account" had been suspended

[Johnny 1989]

In actual fact you could probably list some of the more funnier spam email titles that you get, wonder how many people get the same one?

[foot-loose]

Quoting myself here but following on from the Abbey National emails, I have since had one to say that "my account" had been suspended

You have no idea how many of the older generation open these emails, click the links, then give their details to whatever website pops up.

Same as the daft sods who give me totally private personal details over the phone without knowing who I am. (I work for the fraud department of a bank by the way, I'm not a dodgy con man).

[Johnny 1989]

Quoting myself here but following on from the Abbey National emails, I have since had one to say that "my account" had been suspended

You have no idea how many of the older generation open these emails, click the links, then give their details to whatever website pops up.

Same as the daft sods who give me totally private personal details over the phone without knowing who I am. (I work for the fraud department of a bank by the way, I'm not a dodgy con man).

I work for a security company, the amount of the older generation that tell me the passcode they type into their alarm panel astounds me, some do have blind faith. I always draw my attention to something going on in the office if I can't stop them! Plus I'm rubbish at remembering numbers so I instantly forget them but it only takes one dodgy tosser to work in either of our work places & it's not until it's too late that they get discovered.

[Andy B]

I'm sure there was a thing in the news a while ago about a guy who worked in a call centre and when his colleagues were confirming the card details, he would write them all down. As they all moved around each day it took them ages to figure it out if I remember rightly.

I never got the poing of having someone elses card details, surely if ordered anything on it they would have a delivery address so they could trace it back to you? Seems foolish to me.

[MK Chris]

Even at my work, if someone locks their Windows account out and I unlock it, I tend to ask 'do you remember your password', to which the reply comes 'yeah, it's ......' - so now I said 'don't tell me it, but do you remember what your password is?'

Silly fools.

I read somewhere that 0.1% of spam email gets clicked on, but that that does still makes them a fair profit.

[Munki Bhoy]

I'm sure there was a thing in the news a while ago about a guy who worked in a call centre and when his colleagues were confirming the card details, he would write them all down. As they all moved around each day it took them ages to figure it out if I remember rightly.

I never got the poing of having someone elses card details, surely if ordered anything on it they would have a delivery address so they could trace it back to you? Seems foolish to me.

It was a Glasgow based company. Response Handling, a part of Murray Group. That would be David Murray of "Chairman of Rangers" fame.