Egg - Message Alert - You Have 1 Unread Message

A sneaky type here, instead of trying to trick you into believing your account will be closed if you don't remind the bank of your security questions, this email simply tells you that there is a message to be read. It did arrive twice - don't know whether that's part of the ruse or accident.

As always, it's not personalised and the website that is the target of the link is obviously not egg. Don't click the link if you have received this email, there's no way of knowing what damage that might cause.

Here's the email:

Dear Valued Customer,

You have a new message waiting in your Inbox Folder.

Click here to read.


Best Regards.

The Egg Bank plc Security Department Team.

* Please do not reply to this email as your reply will not be received.

Egg - Security Upgrade

Here's a very good attempt at a phishing email. There's only one link within the entire email and that points to a very realistic looking URL. When I checked the Whois for the URL it has only been registered this morning, so no clues as to where it is registered, but a copy of the email has gone to Egg for them to deal with.

Pointers that it is fake:
1 - I don't have an Egg card - sorry, but this is a big pointer!
2 - It's not personalised.
3 - I'm not aware of banks ever sending this sort of email.
4 - The URL being brand new - Egg would use their own website.

Don't click the link - you never know what damage you might do to your machine.

Here's the content of the email:

Egg Banking Plc has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the Egg Online accounts. As a result we periodically review Egg Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vunerable to the unauthorised use.

This message has been sent to you from Egg Online Banking because we have noticed invalid login attempts into your account, due to this we are temporarily limiting and restricting your account access until we confirm your identity.

To confirm your identity and remove your account limitation please following the link below.