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About 10 minuted after i got in today, put on the first episode of 24 and got comfortable! Looking forward to seeing the first hour of the always interesting Jack Bauer's day and then the phone rang. As usual it was no one i actually knew and someone asking if i was avaliable to chat. When they said they were Lloyds i took interest and after the initial D.O.B and bank questions, the next question they asked shocked me;
"Did you try to transfer (my entire bank account) to another Lloyds tsb account?"
I immediately knew this was wrong and someone was in my account, they had tried to empty the whole thing into their account! I thought back to an e-mail i had got a few days earlier, to which i was asked to update my details, from a professional looking e-mail and when the link opened it was exactly the same as what you would normally have when you log in on the internet. I did, without thinking, updated my details, then within minutes later i thought - wait that isn't right i shouldn't have done that. So i changed the details very quickly, hoping i had done enough and been worried over nothing.
It turns out that the clever little so and so had tricked me in time and they were almost running away with my savings and cash. Thankfully the good people at Lloyds noticed i never make big transfers or do that kind of thing, so the phone call came in and they stopped the money, hopefully they will be after the thief who was trying to steal other people's hard earned money. I do not doubt that they managed to secure other details from people and have got the money in their account now, but i have to be very grateful for the hard work and quick reacting from Lloyds. I was able to save my money and change all my details so they little b*gger is not able to do it again.
A warning to anyone who is getting e-mails from Lloyds, they never send them and will only ever call you. I was lucky enough to save my money and prevent the hacker getting my details.
Hope no one else is having problems with this! I didn't get punished for my naive and foolish decision making from internet banking and hopefully everyone will be as lucky as me.
"Did you try to transfer (my entire bank account) to another Lloyds tsb account?"
I immediately knew this was wrong and someone was in my account, they had tried to empty the whole thing into their account! I thought back to an e-mail i had got a few days earlier, to which i was asked to update my details, from a professional looking e-mail and when the link opened it was exactly the same as what you would normally have when you log in on the internet. I did, without thinking, updated my details, then within minutes later i thought - wait that isn't right i shouldn't have done that. So i changed the details very quickly, hoping i had done enough and been worried over nothing.
It turns out that the clever little so and so had tricked me in time and they were almost running away with my savings and cash. Thankfully the good people at Lloyds noticed i never make big transfers or do that kind of thing, so the phone call came in and they stopped the money, hopefully they will be after the thief who was trying to steal other people's hard earned money. I do not doubt that they managed to secure other details from people and have got the money in their account now, but i have to be very grateful for the hard work and quick reacting from Lloyds. I was able to save my money and change all my details so they little b*gger is not able to do it again.
A warning to anyone who is getting e-mails from Lloyds, they never send them and will only ever call you. I was lucky enough to save my money and prevent the hacker getting my details.
Hope no one else is having problems with this! I didn't get punished for my naive and foolish decision making from internet banking and hopefully everyone will be as lucky as me.
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About 10 minuted after i got in today, put on the first episode of 24 and got comfortable! Looking forward to seeing the first hour of the always interesting Jack Bauer's day and then the phone rang. As usual it was no one i actually knew and someone asking if i was avaliable to chat. When they said they were Lloyds i took interest and after the initial D.O.B and bank questions, the next question they asked shocked me;
"Did you try to transfer (my entire bank account) to another Lloyds tsb account?"
I immediately knew this was wrong and someone was in my account, they had tried to empty the whole thing into their account! I thought back to an e-mail i had got a few days earlier, to which i was asked to update my details, from a professional looking e-mail and when the link opened it was exactly the same as what you would normally have when you log in on the internet. I did, without thinking, updated my details, then within minutes later i thought - wait that isn't right i shouldn't have done that. So i changed the details very quickly, hoping i had done enough and been worried over nothing.
It turns out that the clever little so and so had tricked me in time and they were almost running away with my savings and cash. Thankfully the good people at Lloyds noticed i never make big transfers or do that kind of thing, so the phone call came in and they stopped the money, hopefully they will be after the thief who was trying to steal other people's hard earned money. I do not doubt that they managed to secure other details from people and have got the money in their account now, but i have to be very grateful for the hard work and quick reacting from Lloyds. I was able to save my money and change all my details so they little b*gger is not able to do it again.
A warning to anyone who is getting e-mails from Lloyds, they never send them and will only ever call you. I was lucky enough to save my money and prevent the hacker getting my details.
Hope no one else is having problems with this! I didn't get punished for my naive and foolish decision making from internet banking and hopefully everyone will be as lucky as me.
"Did you try to transfer (my entire bank account) to another Lloyds tsb account?"
I immediately knew this was wrong and someone was in my account, they had tried to empty the whole thing into their account! I thought back to an e-mail i had got a few days earlier, to which i was asked to update my details, from a professional looking e-mail and when the link opened it was exactly the same as what you would normally have when you log in on the internet. I did, without thinking, updated my details, then within minutes later i thought - wait that isn't right i shouldn't have done that. So i changed the details very quickly, hoping i had done enough and been worried over nothing.
It turns out that the clever little so and so had tricked me in time and they were almost running away with my savings and cash. Thankfully the good people at Lloyds noticed i never make big transfers or do that kind of thing, so the phone call came in and they stopped the money, hopefully they will be after the thief who was trying to steal other people's hard earned money. I do not doubt that they managed to secure other details from people and have got the money in their account now, but i have to be very grateful for the hard work and quick reacting from Lloyds. I was able to save my money and change all my details so they little b*gger is not able to do it again.
A warning to anyone who is getting e-mails from Lloyds, they never send them and will only ever call you. I was lucky enough to save my money and prevent the hacker getting my details.
Hope no one else is having problems with this! I didn't get punished for my naive and foolish decision making from internet banking and hopefully everyone will be as lucky as me.
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