A Scam Email with the Subject "UPGRADE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT BEFORE IT GETS SUSPENDED" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:39:50 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam. The sender was NATIONWIDE BANK <OnlineSecurity@nationwidebank.co.uk>, although it may have been spoofed.
Dear nationwide Customers Upgrade 2007
Due to concerns, for the safety
and integrity of the nationwide
account we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your
nationwide account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account in this year 2007
and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could
please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update
your personal records you will not run into
any future problems
with the online service.
Once you have updated your account records
your nationwide account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your nationwide records click
on the following link:
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/signon?LOB=CONS&screenid=Update_Ac
ct
Thank You.
Accounts Management As outlined in our
User Agreement, nationwide will
periodically send you information about site changes and
enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User
Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/help/index.jhtml