Example:(Submitted, February 2005 )
Subject: [Alert] Your Lloyds TSB account

Official notice

Dear Lloyds TSB customer,

Please note that Lloyds TSB Online Access for your account is about to expire.

In order for it to remain active, please sign in to it as soon as possible.

Use the link below to proceed and access your account.

Press here to access Lloyds TSB Online

With Lloyds TSB Online access you can complete most of your banking requirements online. All you need is to sign on to Internet Banking.

Apart from making it easier to manage your money wherever you are, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Internet banking can also give you the chance to win a holiday. Just imagine where you could go with £5,000 to spend on travel. Log on to Internet banking between 1 October 2004 and 31 March 2005, and every time you log on, we'll enter you in our free prize draw for a holiday worth up to £5,000. See our site for more details.

Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Products and Services Copyright © 2005 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc .


Explanation:
A series of scam emails have been directed at Lloyds TSP Bank. The messages ask recipients to click a link in order to logon to their Lloyds TSP account and supply information such as passwords and user ID's. However, the links lead to a fake website designed to resemble a real Lloyds TSP web page. The scammers will harvest any information entered into forms on these fake websites. The emails use a variety of excuses in order to trick Lloyds TSP customers into providing personal information. Some claim that a customer needs to verify their information for security purposes. Others maintain that an account needs to be updated due to a technical upgrade. Still others claim that an account is about to expire and clients need to supply information in order to keep the account active. There are likely to be many other versions of the scam emails distributed.

An example of one of these scam emails is included above.

Lloyds TSP will never send emails to customers asking them to click a link to open a web page and provide sensitive personal information.

Lloyds TSP has information about these scam emails on its website.

This example was taken from www.hoax-slayer.com. Please visit www.hoax-slayer to get more information on such scams. Such scams can exist for any Bank or institution.

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