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An Email with the Subject "Online Banking Security Alert : Please Update Your Account Access" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:24:33 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as Nationwide Building Society <services@nationwide.co.uk>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Dear Valued Customer
It has come to our attention that your Online account informations needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records so that you will not run into any future problems with our online banking service.
However, failure this will result in account suspension
Please update your records on or before September 25, 2006.
To Get Started,Please Click On
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/update.html
This email was sent by the Nationwide Online server server to verify your account informations. This is done for your protection , because some of our members will no longer have access to their online banking and we must verify it.
Nationwide Building Society
Security Advisor
Nationwide PLC.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
HSBC Email ID # 1289