Possible NAB Hoax

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Post 1

Just paid for an item on eBay through a bank deposit from my commonwealth NetBank account, and not too much later a receive an email from National Australia Bank telling me my account details are out of date and need to be changed.

Now I have never had an account with NAB, the only contact I'm having with them in any way is because I'm transferring money to the seller's NAB account.
Looks to me like a scam email to grab my password (even though I don't have an account).

Has anyone else received an email or had a problem like this lately?

Post 2

happens all the time, NAB, Commonwealth, ANZ, Westpac.. get emails claiming to be from all of them. As your bank will tell you, they will A) never send you an email out of the blue, B) never ask you for your password.

and of course, there's the big issue of email itself not being secure. So yeah, ignore all of those :)

Post 3

Does the email give you a link to the alleged NAB site? If so, it's a scam.

Post 4

report it, happens every now and then with my commonwealth account. dodgy email leading to a website, mark it as junk.

Post 5

All the time mate, I get constant fake Ebay and Paypal ones.

Last week I got one saying the Bank of Manhatten needed to verify my details :P

Post 6

Quote from Jaian:
Does the email give you a link to the alleged NAB site? If so, it's a scam.

Yeah it did...but I look at the actual web address and this it looked to be some sort of german site. verkehrsverein-maennedorf.ch or somesuch.

Figured it couldn't possibly be legit, but thanks for the confirmation everyone.

Reported...and done.

Post 7

Yup... I got em too...

Email also said I should execute the file attachment to "ensure security"

I smell sus the moment I looked at the email headers coming Germany.

Post 8

yeah i got this on tuesday, its an image not actual text, so when you click it, it leads you to some site

here a screenshot of the email:

[Image: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7254/scam8ct.jpg]

Post 9

dodgy ****ers

lol selpa why have you got that paper clip turned on :P

Post 10

he needs help :p

Post 11

because it thought he was trying to write a letter

Post 12

paper clip is so awesome