Posts Tagged ‘westpac’

Westpac Bank is one of Australia’s Big Four multinational banks. (All four are listed in the World Bank’s Top 10 for security, stability and liquidity.)

This latest phishing scam is obvious for several reasons, as shown below on the images. These criminals are learning not to include a recipient address because anyone with more than one email address can easily tell at a glance if the recipient address is NOT connected with their Westpac account. *D’oh!*

For experienced marketers and market researchers, the questions asked (all about attitudes and intentions) are meaningless if the person responding is identifiable, because it’s well-known that people will rarely reveal their true intentions like this. They’ll lie for the money being offered — which is out of all proportion to the value of the information in this case.

The REAL purpose of the scam is to obtain your personal account information — ALL of which is already held by Westpac!

Here’s the scam email, with notes: 

Here’s the attached form (minus the header image). NOTE: You should NEVER open attachments in unsolicited emails! Read the rest of this entry »

While phishing scams are no joke, some are unintentionally funny. This one is so badly bungled that it’s hysterical… the wrong spelling of Westpac (short for Western Pacific), forgetting to change the email template from Chase and JP Morgan and more.

Take the usual precautions. The first indication for me is usually that it’s sent to an email account that has no connection to my banking, or it’s for a bank that I don’t use. But there are obviously enough dummies around who respond without thinking that it’s worth doing by these crooks.

Here’s a phishing email I haven’t seen before. Definitely a scam (I bank with Westpac and this isn’t from them.)

As always with scams, there are basic errors in the spelling, grammar, punctuation or syntax.