Your balance sent to your mobile - wherever you are.

Now here was a nasty little clever number. It's taken me a while to convince myself that it must be phishing. The email is entirely believable and does not do any of the usual threat etc to get you to divulge your security details.

Pointers that it's not real:
1 - I don't have a Lloyds TSB Business Account (this is the reason I spotted it as fake, else I might have believed it!!!)
2 - Not personalised.
3 - Going to a website alester.se - not .co.uk or .com

Here's the email to see for yourself!

Lloyds TSB online for business

Dear Lloyds TSB business user,

Text alerts


Your balance sent to your mobile - wherever you are


Up-to-date financial information is important to any business. Now there’s another way to keep track of your finances. Our free Text alerts service delivers account updates direct to your mobile phone as text messages


-Account balances and transaction information sent to your mobile


Choose to receive alerts at a time that suits you


Receive alerts free of charge**


If you are registered for Internet banking


To register for Text alerts, log on to Internet banking and select 'Text alerts' to from the left menu .
Apply Now

By telephone , Call 0845 072 5555* to register.


Features & Benefits


-you can choose to have Text alerts sent either daily or weekly.


-you choose which business accounts you receive Text alerts for.


-you can nominate another user to receive your texts


We’ll send Text alerts between 7am and 10am and you can choose to receive them daily (Monday-Friday) or weekly. For weekly alerts, you choose which day of the week suits you best.

Internet banking

Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and signatories to the Banking Codes. FSA authorisation can be checked on the FSA’s Register at: www.fsa.gov.uk/register. Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are members of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Financial Ombudsman Service. Lloyds TSB Group plc.