Comments on: Real or phish? Time for the people’s court…

By: anon

anon — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:06:29 +0000

dave,
you are getting too paranoid… acxiom is a well known e-marketing company – hsbc miust have outsourced the marketing execution to them. hsss1 is a name of one of their web-servers and since you are getting a “padlock”, it means HSBC has taken care to ensure that the data entry forms are enrypted/etc.
btw, i am not associated with hsbc or acxiom!

By: Chris White

Chris White — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:54:47 +0000

It is not just the Marketing Departments. Virtually all the Banks in the e-mails they keep sending us on ‘Security’ ask you to copy any phishing e-mails and forward them for analysis. Should you open the e-mail as part of this process you are liable to confirm the existence of your e-mail address and thus set it up to receive even more spam.
On the subject of security and if you have plenty of time to read all the posts have a look at the item on Payment News today on Fighting Fraudulent Transactions
Bruce Schneier blogs about why the focus in fighting online banking fraud needs to be on the transactions themselves, not solely on authenticating the user’s logon.

By: Colin Henderson

Colin Henderson — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:53:58 +0000

So true … Banks are not helping themselves by sending out marketing campaigns like this. Unfortunately its often the marketing dept getting ahead of the internet group and dealing direct with an agency.